On the topic of tables and JavaScript and using vanilla HTML:
Lately I’ve felt especially frustrated that I’m wasting so much time dealing with performance for data tables, a concept that has been so thoroughly solved for decades in desktop applications. Feels like there should be a vanilla html option for a table that:
- supports massive collections (“virtual tables”)
- sortable, filterable by header
- overflowable cells
- user resizable column widths
- user show/hide columns
- freeze columns/rows
- performance!
- no strong opinions on style
I struggle to find one solid option that fits all of that. Usually I have to make a sacrifice and then wrestle with the library of choice for that missing feature.
Lately I’ve felt especially frustrated that I’m wasting so much time dealing with performance for data tables, a concept that has been so thoroughly solved for decades in desktop applications. Feels like there should be a vanilla html option for a table that:
- supports massive collections (“virtual tables”)
- sortable, filterable by header
- overflowable cells
- user resizable column widths
- user show/hide columns
- freeze columns/rows
- performance!
- no strong opinions on style
I struggle to find one solid option that fits all of that. Usually I have to make a sacrifice and then wrestle with the library of choice for that missing feature.