A few years ago, if you asked “what React table should I use?”, the conversation was mostly about rendering rows, sorting, maybe filtering, and how customizable the grid was. In 2026, that’s not really the hard part anymore. The hard part is building a datatable like Linear : something that already feels like part of a serious product. I mean the stuff around the grid itself: filters saved views URL state bulk actions grouping persistence server-side loading shareable state keyboard-friendly workflows a UI that feels coherent instead of stitched together I know this because I ended up building the same thing 4 times across different React projects. And every time, the pattern was the same. The grid itself was only a small part of the work. The real engineering time disappeared into all the surrounding UX and behavior that users start expecting once the table becomes part of a real workflow. So eventually I stopped rebuilding it from scratch and turned it into a product: react-datatable .…