I’ve rarely worked on a web application that didn’t have several tables throughout the application. It is a format for displaying data that is very familiar to users. Anyone else feels like they’re asked to make every application work just like Excel or is that just me?

Finding a good library that makes building tables easy and that also offers all the functionality options you will need can be a challenge. The other challenge is that if you do find a good one the UI styling it provides out of the box may not fit in well with the rest of your application.

The best option I’ve found so far when it comes to React applications is React Table. This library checks all of the boxes I mentioned above and it is also free to use which is a nice bonus. React Table is a library that doesn’t provide its own styling. So that makes it simple to provide your own to make it look like it fits in with the rest of the styling in your app.

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