tannerlinsley/react-table
React Table
This project is a headless UI table library and state manager for building data grids. It functions as a type-safe logic engine that manages table state and data grid behavior without providing pre-defined styles or HTML markup.
The library employs a headless pattern, separating internal logic and state from visual presentation. By providing hooks rather than styled components, it allows developers to maintain full control over the markup, styles, and interaction behavior of their tables.
The core engine covers complex datagrid implementation, including the management of sorting, filtering, and pagination. It uses a configuration-driven API to transform raw data into derived table structures through internal state updates.
Features
- Headless UI Components - Ships a logic-only table engine that provides functionality without enforcing visual styles or HTML markup.
- Hook-Based Logic Encapsulations - Uses custom hooks to encapsulate and inject stateful table logic and event handlers into components.
- Data Table State Managers - Provides a logic-only controller for managing sorting, filtering, and pagination state in data grids.
- Framework Agnostic UI Logic - Provides core grid logic as a standalone set of rules decoupled from any specific rendering framework.
- Headless Data Grids - Functions as a core logic engine for building high-performance interactive data tables with full markup control.
- Headless Table Logic - Implements framework-agnostic utilities for managing table state and logic across different frontend libraries.
- Complex Datagrids - Supports the implementation of advanced datagrids featuring complex grouping, sorting, and filtering.
- UI Component Configurations - Allows table behavior and column properties to be defined through a declarative configuration object.
- State Management Architectures - Implements internal state management for tracking sorting, filtering, and pagination in a reactive manner.
- Data Grids - Provides a type-safe logic engine for implementing spreadsheet-style interfaces with sorting and filtering.
- Derived State - Transforms raw data into derived table structures through internal state updates and computed values.
- Tables - Headless UI library for building complex tables and data grids.
