React Table v7 – Hooks for building fast and extendable data grids in React

Re:React Table v7 – Hooks for building fast and extendable d... by tmpz22 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:11PM (#22539743)

Fair take, but I also believe we should've thrown out virtualization/windowing entirely. It was of those shiny product-level features that sounds great but ultimately provides little to no value for most applications.

Most of my point is engineer-oriented but I think it also applies at the product level. React allows you to build cool features easily - that doesn't mean every cool idea should be acted upon.

At times this will mean "dumbing-down" design in the name of pragmatism > shininess. YMMV, ad-supported businesses are going to need that infinite scroll... but most don't.

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Re:React Table v7 – Hooks for building fast and extendable d... by tannerlinsley on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:17PM (#22539811)

Agreed. Most if not all of the production tables I have are using very simple architecture. Pagination + Data Exploration utilities like sort/filter/group/etc.

In no way am I preaching that these plugins should used. However, I am proud that they can be used. And if you end up being one of the users that only needs a few things to make your production tables great, then you win again by being able to treeshake out all of the other stuff you choose not to use.

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