---
title: "Better Tables with React-Table"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/better-tables-with-react-table-kmmg29y6o
source_url: https://blog.openreplay.com/better-tables-with-react-table
type: article
source: "asayer"
published: 2022-09-20T10:47:50.072Z
updated: 2022-09-20T10:47:50.071Z
tags: ["react"]
reading_time: 13
upvotes: 93
comments: 6
language: en
---

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# Better Tables with React-Table

**[asayer](https://daily.dev/sources/asayer)** · 13 min read · 93 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

React-Table is a headless utility used to build robust tables and datagrid experiences for React applications. In this article, you will learn how to use react-table to build a table with sorting, filtering, and pagination. The useTable hook, in turn, returns a table instance. This optimizes and improves the component’s performance. The using this hook, on the table.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://blog.openreplay.com/better-tables-with-react-table>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@lahbouch21** · 4 upvotes

> over engineering i think.

**@hailwood** · 1 upvotes

> This appears to be using the older version of react-table.
> V8 introduces some significant changes.

**@devvsakib** · 1 upvotes

> great

**@ghost** · 0 upvotes

> Nice that it covers basic features. Will be good to recommend someone who needs to use this library.

**@clarkjoao** · 0 upvotes

> i think can be good for a fast projet only.

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