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 😊

[itpropro]

Hey @benjamincanac, have you tested tantack table, what was your impression and will it be powering the v3 table component? I just used it in another project and it is really great for some features that are currently missing from the nuxt ui table like column resizing, column
reordering, column/row pinning and global filtering for tables to already filter content on ssr rendering and only hydrate with the filtered data.
I would love to see resizing and reordering in the new table version, there are many use cases for that in data tables.

[benjamincanac]

@itpropro I haven't started working on the Table component yet, I still have to finish the docs for the other components 😊 Thanks for the feedback though, it's reassuring to try it out!

[benjamincanac]

Closing in favor of #2139.