Reactable

Fast, flexible, and simple data tables in React.

Reactable allows you to display tabular data client-side, and provides sorting, filtering, and pagination over that data. It uses the power of React.js to do all this very, very quickly, and provides an API that makes simple things easy, while trying to get out of your way as much as possible if you want to do something complicated or unconventional.

This project is currently alpha-stage, which means the API may or may not be unstable and there might be hidden bugs lurking around any corner. I'll try to tag any releases with breaking changes, however, and the more people who use this the faster we can get to 1.0!

Installation

Using Bower:

bower install [--save] reactable

Or, you can just download the raw file here.

That file exposes a global object Reactable. If you'd rather use browserify or another CommonJS implementation to require() it, there's a file build/reactable.common.js in the repo or here if you'd like to download it directly.

Keep in mind that we depend on the latest version of React (0.11), with addons. That can be downloaded here

Usage

The simplest example:

var Table = Reactable.Table;
React.renderComponent(
    <Table className="table" data={[
        { Name: 'Griffin Smith', Age: 18 },
        { Age: 23,  Name: 'Lee Salminen' },
        { Age: 28, Position: 'Developer' },
    ]} />,
    document.getElementById('table')
);

While pretty basic, this example demonstrates a couple things:

• Columns in the data array can be in any order, and you can omit any you like
• Regular React DOM attributes such as className will pass-through to the rendered <table>
• Data values can be any type with a toString() method

Further Customization

You can also manually build up your rows using Reactable.Tr nested in a table, also using the data prop, but this time containing only one javascript object. This approach can be freely combined with the data property on the <Table>, and is useful if you want to specify per-row attributes such as classes, like so:

var Table = Reactable.Table,
    Tr = Reactable.Tr;

React.renderComponent(
    <Table className="table" data={[
        { name: 'Row one', content: 'These are regular data rows' },
        { name: 'Row two', content: 'They work like above' },
    ]} >
        <Tr className="special-row"
            data={{ name: 'Other Row' , content: 'This is a different row' }} />
    </Table>,
    document.getElementById('table')
);

Even More Customization

If you want to customize the rendering of individual columns, you can go a level deeper by embedding a Reactable.Td inside your Reactable.Tr. These have the required column property, and an optional data property if you want to customize the data that's used for sorting and filtering - if the latter isn't specified, the data used will default to the Td's children.

Example:

var Table = Reactable.Table,
    Tr = Reactable.Tr,
    Td = Reactable.Td;

React.renderComponent(
    <Table className="table" id="table">
        <Tr>
            <Td column="Name" data="Griffin Smith">
                <b>Griffin Smith</b>
            </Td>
            <Td column="Age">18</Td>
        </Tr>
        <Tr>
            <Td column="Name">Lee Salminen</Td>
            <Td column="Age">23</Td>
        </Tr>
        <Tr>
            <Td column="Position">Developer</Td>
            <Td column="Age">28</Td>
        </Tr>
    </Table>,
    document.getElementById('table')
);

Manually specifying columns

To override the automatic grabbing of the column list from the attributes of the passed data objects, you can pass a columns property to the <Table> component. This can be either:

• An array of strings, in which case only the given properties will be included as columns in the rendered table.
• An array of objects, each of which must have a key and label property. The key property is the attribute of the row object from which to retrieve value, and the label is the text to render in the column header row.

Preventing escaping of HTML

If you don't want to go all the way down the JSX rabbit hole to render individual cells as HTML, and you know your source data is safe, you can wrap strings in Reactable.unsafe to prevent their content from being escaped, like so:

var Table = Reactable.Table,
    unsafe = Reactable.unsafe;

React.renderComponent(
    <Table className="table" id="table" data={[
        {
            'Name': unsafe('<b>Griffin Smith</b>'),
            'Github': unsafe('<a href="https://github.com/glittershark"><img src="https://d2k1ftgv7pobq7.cloudfront.net/images/services/8cab38550d1f23032facde191031d024/github.png"></a>')
        },
        {
            'Name': unsafe('<b>Ian Zhang</b>'),
            'Github': unsafe('<a href="https://github.com/lofiinterstate"><img src="https://d2k1ftgv7pobq7.cloudfront.net/images/services/8cab38550d1f23032facde191031d024/github.png"></a>')
        },
    ]}/>,
    document.getElementById('table')
);

Pagination

You can also use pagination, by just specifying an itemsPerPage argument to the <Table> component. For example:

<Table className="table" data={[
    { Name: 'Griffin Smith', Age: '18' },
    { Age: '23',  Name: 'Lee Salminen' },
    { Age: '28', Position: 'Developer' },
    { Name: 'Griffin Smith', Age: '18' },
    { Age: '30',  Name: 'Test Person' },
    { Name: 'Another Test', Age: '26', Position: 'Developer' },
    { Name: 'Third Test', Age: '19', Position: 'Salesperson' },
    { Age: '23',  Name: 'End of this Page', Position: 'CEO' },
]} itemsPerPage={4} />

Sorting

To enable sorting on all columns, just specify sortable={true} on the <Table> component. For further customization, ie disabling sort or using a custom sort function on a per-column basis, you can pass an array to sortable, which contains either string column names or column objects.

We've pre-built some sort functions for you.

• CaseInsensitive will sort strings alphabetically regardless of capitalization (e.g. Joe Smith === joe smith)
• Date will sort dates using JavaScript's native Date parser (e.g. 4/20/2014 12:05 PM)
• Currency will sort USD format (e.g. $1,000.00)
• Numeric will parse integer-like strings as integers (e.g. "1")

To specify a custom sort function, use the following structure for the column object:

{column: 'Column Name', sortFunction: function(a, b){} }

You can also specify a default sort by passing in either a column name by itself, or an object with a column and a direction paramenter of either asc or desc. If no direction is specified, the default sort will be ascending. Example:

{column: 'Column Name', direction: 'asc' }

Combined example:

<Table className="table" id="table" data={[
    { Name: 'Lee Salminen', Age: '23', Position: 'Programmer'},
    { Name: 'Griffin Smith', Age: '18', Position: 'Engineer'},
    { Name: 'Ian Zhang', Age: '28', Position: 'Developer'}
]}
sortable={[
    {
        column: 'Name',
        sortFunction: function(a, b){
            // Sort by last name
            var nameA = a.split(' ');
            var nameB = b.split(' ');

            return nameA[1].localeCompare(nameB[1]);
        }
    },
    'Age',
    'Position'
]}
defaultSort={{column: 'Age', direction: 'desc'}}/>

Filtering

You can do simple case-insensitive filtering by specifying a filterable property on the table. This property should contain a list of columns which the filter is performed on. If the filterable property is provided, then an input box with class reactable-filter-input will be prepended to the thead of the table.

Example:

<Table className="table" id="table" data={[
    {'State': 'New York', 'Description': 'this is some text', 'Tag': 'new'},
    {'State': 'New Mexico', 'Description': 'lorem ipsum', 'Tag': 'old'},
    {'State': 'Colorado', 'Description': 'new description that shouldn\'t match filter', 'Tag': 'old'},
    {'State': 'Alaska', 'Description': 'bacon', 'Tag': 'renewed'},
]} filterable={['State', 'Tag']} />