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# Introduction

:rocket: Laravel Excel is intended at being Laravel-flavoured PhpSpreadsheet: a simple, but elegant wrapper around PhpSpreadsheet with the goal of simplifying
exports and imports.

:fire: [PhpSpreadsheet](https://phpspreadsheet.readthedocs.io/) is a library written in pure PHP and providing a set of classes that allow you to read from and to write to different spreadsheet file formats, like Excel and LibreOffice Calc.

## Laravel Excel Features

* Easily export collections to Excel.
* Export queries with automatic chunking for better performance.
* Queue exports for better performance.
* Easily export Blade views to Excel.
* Easily import to collections.
* Read the Excel file in chunks.
* Handle the import inserts in batches.