Using TanStack Table as a headless table

[AbdallahAlhaddad]

What do you think about using TanStack headless table to handle table logic?

[benjamincanac]

What would be the benefit of using TanStack, what are we missing?

[ddahan]

Based on the features, I guess the OP idea is to be feature-complete without reimplementing them?

[AbdallahAlhaddad]

The main idea is to eliminate the need to maintain the Javascript logic ourselves and rethinking the table api to give the ability to easily extend the table functionality by the library consumers.

I suggested TanStack Table because its popular and well-maintained headless table library as its very popular with the react ecosystem, I also noticed it is used in shadcn ui.

[ddahan]

That's a very interesting topic in my opinion an I'm curious to hear maintainers opinion. I guess it's a little tough for them to decide when something :

• should be a hard dependency
• should be a soft dependency (e.g. showing an example of how to integrate the external dependency by yourself, like with Datepicker)
• should be totally reimplemented

Because iit's all about trade-offs. The more you integrate things by yourself, the more it requires work and maintenance. However the code is probably mode robust, easier to use and debug for developers, and dedicated to your specific need.

[benjamincanac]

I'm gonna give this a shot in v3 but I don't guarantee that I will go for it 😊