There are many code snippets throughout this book, and they are presented to illustrate a point or a technique. Some of the apps can be reconstructed from the snippets given, but it may be easier to pick up the code for each of the completed apps from the companion GitHub repository. Each dataset and spreadsheet used is also in that same repository.
Each set of material for each project is in a separate directory structure, organized as shown in Figure A-1 when cloned from Git.
If there is standalone Apps Script content for any topic, it will be in a subdirectory /gas/scripts and the expanded source will be in /gas/<source>/<thenameofthescript> as in Figure A-2.
When topics are container-bound, regardless of whether they are VBA or Apps Script, they will be in the containerbound folder.
Figure A-1. Structure of a repository cloned from Git
Figure A-2. Directory structure for standalone Apps Script content
gscript Files
A gscript file is a pointer to the cloud-hosted script file, rather than the file itself. On GitHub it will look like Figure A-3.
Figure A-3. gscript file
When opened in GitHub, it will show the URL of the script (Figure A-4 ...
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