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What happened to DataTables? Anyone remember that thing? The author used to charge for support because the tool was both crappy and ubiquitous

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I still use it. And it's still pretty amazing. That author has been maintaining it for over 10 years with perfect backwards compatibility. I've wrapped it in react now. And then rewrote it in react but kept the wire API so I didn't have to update my server endpoints.

Fortunately that’s mostly been left behind along with jQuery

Or, we've reinvented the wheel once again...

I liked DataTables. Never had a problem with it.

HN: build declarative data bound UIs with libraries like React

Also HN: downvotes comments critical of non-declarative non-data bound UI tools famous for spaghetti

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