Web Rush

Episode 206: A Little Diddy About A Griddy With Tanner Linsley

Episode Summary

Tanner Linsley talks about writing open source software at TanStack, including TanStack Table, and answers our questions about data grid functionality, why reach for a grid, and why should developers consider headless?

Episode Notes

Recording date: 09/29/2022

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Tanner Linsley @TannerLinsley

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• TanStack

• TanStack Table on github

• Tanner Linsley’s conference presentation 5 Years of Building React Table at React Summit 2022

• Ag-Grid

• Nozzle

• Memoization in Javascript and React

Timejumps

• 01:18 Guest introduction

• 02:59 What functionality does a data grid give you?

• 08:13 Sponsor: Ag Grid

• 09:17 What are people using grids for?

• 16:22 How do you differ from Ag Grid?

• 29:02 How do you decide which grid to use?

• 34:54 Do you work with other libraries besides React?

• 36:27 Virtualization

• 39:42 Sponsor: IdeaBlade

• 40:34 Why would you want to use headless?

• 42:52 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.