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

Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by bshimmin on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:47PM (#8161035)

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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Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by dingdingdang on Sunday August 10, 2014 @07:07PM (#8161093)

I like your DataTables review, as someone who has worked extensively with DataTables it is indeed very apt. However, the complexity exposed by DataTables is, at least partly IMHO, justified by the reality of how complex it is to do tables, especially in web app mode where "tables" are often dynamic entries that look nothing like tables whatsoever. In this latter scenario DataTables actually really do shine, at least once one has spent enough time to settle on a dev-routine that works.

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Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by JangoSteve on Sunday August 10, 2014 @10:43PM (#8161701)

I had felt the same way about Datatables, which is why I ended up writing Dynatable over the course of a couple years. Tried to take a somewhat different approach that felt more natural to use.

http://www.dynatable.com

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Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by jsmeaton on Monday August 11, 2014 @12:42AM (#8161950)

That looks really really nice. It's like it was built with javascript in mind rather than strVisualBasic i6.0 ;). I'm going to rip datatables out of my current project and put this in.

Have you considered (or implemented) col or row spans? A particular dataset I have to work with has multilevel column and row titles - so I've avoided using datatables for that.

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Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by JangoSteve on Monday August 11, 2014 @09:36AM (#8163161)

Thanks! It has been considered, and is planned, just hasn't been implemented yet. There's a lot more discussion about it here: https://github.com/alfajango/jquery-dynatable/issues/30

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Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by glittershark on Sunday August 10, 2014 @07:05PM (#8161086)

That's the goal :) glad you like it! If there are any features you need please feel free to make a Github issue requesting them - I've got lots of free time to work on this right now.

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Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by dingdingdang on Monday August 11, 2014 @05:43AM (#8162631)

One thing I noticed is that the search presented on http://glittershark.github.io/reactable/ does not seem to work quite right - if I search for "Shawnee" then "Shawness" then "Shawnee" again without reloading then the found entries seem to be duplicating freely so I end up with 6 (and counting) found versions of "Shawness". Good luck with maturing this library.

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Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by capkutay on Sunday August 10, 2014 @09:25PM (#8161471)

That's interesting you feel that way about DataTables. I was thinking about moving from slickgrid to datatables since slickgrid's author is no longer supporting the project. I was under the impression datatables might be easier to develop with compared to slickgrid.

If someone has used both slickgrid and datatables, could you recommend one or the other?

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