Tad 0.10.0

New Features

• Tad now uses DuckDb instead of SQLite, enabling much better load times and interactive performance, especially for large data files.
• Added direct support for Parquet and compressed CSV files.
• Added a new Data Sources sidebar showing available tables, data files and folders, and allowing fast switching between them.
• Tad can open DuckDb and SQLite Database files:

  $ tad myDatabase.duckdb

  or

  $ tad myDatabase.sqlite

• Ability to open filesystem directories directly for quick browsing and exploration of collections of tabular data files.

Internal Changes

This release is a major restructuring and rewrite of the Tad internals:

• Implementation now structured as a Lerna monorepo, split into 12 sub-modules.
• Implementation ported to TypeScript and UI code updated to React Hooks
• Main pivot table React component (tadviewer) built as an independent module, enabling embedding in other applications
• Experimental proof-of-concept packaging of Tad as a web app and a reference web server, illustrating how Tad could be deployed on the web.
• Experimental proof-of-concept support for other database backends (Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS Athena)