A canvas-powered, React-friendly datagrid component
Note: This library is still considered beta, because it currently has few consumers. Feel free to give it a try and report any issues!
There are already lots of excellent grid / table components that can be used with React, so why another one? Well, react-canvas-grid's particular goals are:
- First-class support for complex data objects - rather than assuming every cell's value is a simple scalar
- High performance handling of all major operations (data editing, scrolling, selecting, etc) even with large grids - no visible redaws, lag, or hanging the main thead
- Range selection (although only a single range at a time), including the possibility to bulk update the selected area of the grid
- Arbitrary numbers of frozen rows / columns
- Support for column reordering / filtering (even if that's largely handled externally to the component)
- Column reordering by dragging (i.e. internally to the component)
- Focus/scroll to a column (for use with an external 'search' function)
There was also originally a goal of making use of browser-native scrolling, although that ultimately wasn't quite tennable. 🤷♂️
- Middle-click "auto-scrolling"
- Column dragging (callback to with suggested reordering of ColumnDefs, up to parent to actually re-order & re-render)