---
title: "I Used React DataGrid to Build a Real Space Mission Explorer"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/xnkrgqep5
source_url: https://dev.to/hadil/i-used-react-datagrid-to-build-a-real-space-mission-explorer-4g8b
type: share
source: "Dev World"
author: "Hadil Ben Abdallah"
published: 2026-08-24T09:18:20.248Z
updated: 2026-08-24T09:19:30.123Z
tags: ["react", "architecture", "typescript", "data-visualization"]
upvotes: 34
comments: 13
language: en
---

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# I Used React DataGrid to Build a Real Space Mission Explorer

**[Dev World](https://daily.dev/sources/dev_world)** · [@hadilbenabdallah](https://daily.dev/hadilbenabdallah) · 34 upvotes · 13 comments

## Summary

A developer builds a fictional Space Mission & Satellite Explorer app to stress-test React DataGrid, a free open-source data grid library with an AG Grid-style enterprise edition. The project uses a 1,200-row client-side dataset and a 100,000-row live archive loaded via server-side infinite scrolling, exercising features like multi-column sorting, faceted filtering, row grouping and pinning, a pivot table builder, custom cell renderers, CSV/Excel export, and Tree Data for hierarchical mission timelines. Alongside the Explorer, a chart-driven Analytics page and a Mission Details page round out the app. The writeup covers setup, developer experience, theming, and concludes that React DataGrid is worth using for data-intensive dashboards, analytics tools, and applications needing large datasets or hierarchical data, though the Pivot Table and Tree Data configuration took more time to learn than basic sorting and filtering.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@sunyfilip** · 4 upvotes

> Its awesome...just if the author reads this, there the last graph in the analytics without axes labels and it is not obvious which axis is for what :)

**@aidasaid** · 3 upvotes

> What you built is amazing 🔥🔥🔥

**@qaudaffyazmi** · 0 upvotes

> why not tanstack table?

**@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes

> Saved pivots should be replayed after every schema change. Renamed fields and removed measures need a migration path before user-created views start breaking.

**@jliter85** · 0 upvotes

> This is the kind of project that makes a technology evaluation genuinely useful. Testing React DataGrid against a 100,000-record archive instead of a tiny demo really shows where these tools start earning their place. I especially liked the point that the grid should handle the data complexity so developers can spend more time building the actual product around it.

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Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript), [#data-visualization](https://daily.dev/tags/data-visualization)

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