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# Stop Wasting AI Tokens on Table Boilerplate

**[Jackson Kasi](https://daily.dev/sources/xc3cptmndmzmghb0cvbsi)** · [@jacksonkasi](https://daily.dev/jacksonkasi) · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

TableCraft is an open-source React component built on Drizzle ORM that auto-generates data tables from a schema with a single component. It eliminates repetitive boilerplate by providing built-in filtering, sorting, pagination, search, export, and date pickers out of the box via a simple `<DataTable adapter={adapter} />` API.

## Content

Every time I asked AI to generate a data table — same 200+ lines. Same debugging.

So I built TableCraft. Drizzle-powered, one component, done.

**<DataTable adapter={adapter} />**

What you get:

- Auto columns from schema
- Filtering, sorting, pagination
- Search, export, date pickers
- Zero boilerplate

🔗 [https://github.com/jacksonkasi1/TableCraft](https://github.com/jacksonkasi1/TableCraft)

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