react-table VS ag-Grid

5. react-table

import ReactTable from 'react-table'...render() { return ( )} However, on their API Docs and examples, they all use useTable.

I have a functional component built around the React Table component that uses the Apollo GraphQL client for server-side pagination and searching. I am trying to implement debouncing for the searching so that only one query is executed against the server once the user stops typing with that value. I have tried the lodash debounce and awesome debounce promise solutions but still a query gets executed against the server for every character typed in the search field.

In this post I’ll show you how, using the AG Grid component and Ably Spaces, you can create a React application that allows users to see not only who else is currently viewing the grid, but using a Flowbite Avatar Stack component, what row each user currently has selected.

Use npm to install AG Grid Community, AG Grid React, and Immer, a package that will help us work with immutable state more conveniently.

something like ag-grid? https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-grid

I personally use https://www.ag-grid.com/ for all my data grid needs. It has a free community version (that should get you covered imo) as well as a paid one with advanced features.

To be fair, in any GUI toolkit, the "table" is abolutely the most complex general purpose widget. People really under estimate the difficult of an efficient implementation. Qt spents YEARS improving their QTableWidget class. The implementation is mind-bogglingly complex. I am sure many very smart summer interns (PhDs!) have tried to tweak that class to squeeze every bit of performance possible. The table class in GTK+ and MSFT DotNet's WPF are equally, freakishly insane.

Consider this idea: Most people who use a table class in a GUI framework assume it is essentially infinitely scalable (myself included!). I am talking about millions of rows or thousands of columns with all kinds of silly widgets injected into individual cells. It is a crazy hard computer science problem to solve. I would not doubt there are many PhD thesises written on the topic of fast, scalable table widgets.

Beyond desktop GUI toolkits, people have tried to do the same in a browser (HTML/CSS/JS). Have you seen AG-Grid? Woah, it is unbelievable how much goddamn data you can squeeze into that widget. Most Wall Streets web-based trading apps use it one way or another. It's just so hard to beat. Ref: https://www.ag-grid.com/ There must be 1,000 person years of optimisation sunk into that implementation.

AG Grid is potentially the greatest data grid library out there. It has just about every feature that you might need, and then some!

It's just worth remembering that AG Grid open source the code on Github and the community edition of AG Grid is MIT Licensed so it can be used in commercial applications completely free.

Whilst this is more than a simple HTML table, I wouldn't consider it advance compared to full data-grid examples like https://www.ag-grid.com/.