How To Efficiently Display Data in Tables With React

Supercharge your tables with React Table

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In this article, you will learn the following:

• What React Table is and when to use it
• Rendering a basic table
• Styling your tables
• Sorting, filtering, and pagination using the React Table library
• Displaying data from an API to a table using React Table

Introduction

Generating tables in plain JSX is already very easy. For example, to render a simple table, you can write the following code:

While this is suitable for rendering data, consider a situation where you would have to display hundreds of records from an API. Furthermore, after this, you would have to write extra code for sorting and filtering your cells. As a result, this will make your application logic more complex and hard to read.

This is where React Table comes in. It is a battle-tested library that will make your work easier by…