Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tables in React

This looks lovely. As someone who has battled too often with jQuery DataTables - which can do everything under the sun but often feels like you're performing unanaesthetised emergency dentistry on yourself in the process - it would be terrific to have something more modern and flexible, even if it's not quite at feature parity. Here's hoping this might be it!

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Nice to see this but there are few other related projects based on React(Not 100% React) that I know of: <a href="https://github.com/bgerm/react-table-sorter-demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bgerm&#x2F;react-table-sorter-demo</a> <a href="https://github.com/josebalius/ngReactGrid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josebalius&#x2F;ngReactGrid</a>

Neat. I&#x27;m also building a general purpose grid for an app I&#x27;m building. From the demo it appears the entire table data set must be loaded for the pagination to work. I&#x27;m not sure how practical it is for real use.

This is pretty cool. Sorting by the datetime field in the demo sorts the strings alphabetically though. I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s an issue with the plugin or the demo, but it probably isn&#x27;t the right behavior.

Hey cool! I&#x27;ve been working on something similar. <a href="http://dynamictyped.github.io/Griddle/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dynamictyped.github.io&#x2F;Griddle&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m glad to see more components coming to React :)

You have a bit of a namespace collision - <a href="http://www.reactable.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reactable.com&#x2F;</a>

Why are some developers so enamored with tables and making ever more table-generation libraries. They are one of the worst ways to display information in a readable way. Outside of spreadsheet computing and source data, they have limited use. Tables should almost certainly never make it to an end-user UI.