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

Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by carterehsmith on Monday August 11, 2014 @10:10AM (#8163289)

I guess you never worked on a ‘business’ application (as opposed to ‘social’ app, or a ‘game’)?

For example, let’s look at the screenshots below from a typical line-of-business app (AWS console). How do you think the UI should look like, without using tables?

http://www.gregarnette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ec2-re...

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Re:Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tabl... by hawleyal on Monday August 11, 2014 @05:03PM (#8165284)

I work on many business applications. I find developers make tables as a first recourse because they are easy and don't require thoughtful design of the most usable way to view and interact with data.

Edit: Also the example you showed me is definitely not tabular data, as each column cannot be tabulated to a sum or other aggregate. It would most likely be much more semantic to make it a list.

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