FlexTable

***Still WIP/Beta - no demo, tests

A small React component for creating flexible, responsive, data-driven table-like data displays.

This component is pretty stable and works great. With that being said:

I wrote this library a few years ago and will be looking at ways to refine the code to be even more efficient and use less space.

FlexTable Creation

Injecting data into FlexTable is relatively easy. When using a data object to define your FlexTable's content, you have the ability to:

• Define as many columns as you want
• Define whether or not they are sortable
• Apply a value (for sorting and styling purposes)
• Apply a value for rendering - if you want to display something different than the value being used for sorting/styling, then you can use the render key in both the header columns and all data rows.

The following relatively-simple data structure illustrates how to use FlexTable.

Data Structure

{
    columns: {
        content: [ // header row
            { // header column
                value: 'place-name', // required
                render: 'Place Name', // optional, if you want to display complex output in the header cells or just display something different name vs the value
                sortable: true // optional, is the column sortable?
            }
            // more header columns
        ]
    },
    rows: {
        className: 'string' or { or object }, // additional classes to add to rows (only content rows!), see classnames documentation for object className API
        noDataMessage: 'Sorry, no data...',
        content: [ // rows
            [   // single row, number of objects in each row needs to match number of columns
                {
                    value: number or 'string', // required
                    render: 'complex output' // value is required (for value comparisons) if using render
                }
            ],
            // more rows..
        ]
    }
}

Example Data-driven FlexTable

const flexTableData = {
  columns: {
    content: [
      {
        value: 'id',
        render: 'Person ID',
        sortable: true
      },
      {
        value: 'name',
        render: 'Person Name',
        sortable: true
      }
    ]
  },
  rows: {
    className: 'content-row-class',
    noDataMessage: 'Some message to display if there is no data.',
    content: [
      [
        {
          value: '1'
        },
        {
          value: 'Jonathan'
        }
      ],
      [
        {
          value: '2'
        },
        {
          value: 'Will'
        }
      ],
      [
        {
          value: '3'
        },
        {
          value: 'Archie'
        }
      ],
    ]
  }
};

<FlexTable 
  data={flexTableData} />