Features

Following is a list of features offered by KingTable library.

• Automatic generation of tables, analyzing the shape of input objects
• Pagination bar, for both client side pagination and server side pagination
• Collection of parameters to perform AJAX requests and handling of responses
• Automatic handling of HTTP GET or HTTP POST requests (configurable)
• Caching of filters in storage object for each page, by URL
• When user changes filters, they are automatically cached and restored upon page refresh or when navigating back to the same page
• Caching of results (LRU caching mechanism), to avoid AJAX requests when possible, by filters and by URL
• For tables that can be paginated on the client side: client side text search feature, including sorting by occurrences and relevance of matches, handling of diacritics supporting highlighting
• Loading view; error view (when an error occurs while fetching data)
• Rich HTML table builder (with automatic event handlers, suitable for web applications and Electron desktop applications)
• Plain text table builder (suitable for console or plain text output, for example for Node.js console applications)
• Plain HTML table builder (no event handlers, for example suitable for email bodies and export to HTML)
• Table view and gallery view, built-in for the rich HTML builder
• Possibility to implement custom table builders (for example, table builders using React, or Knockout.js, while reusing most of the business logic)
• Possibility to implement custom views for built-in rich HTML builder
• Logic for sorting, both by single property or by multiple properties
• Support for custom event handlers, which receive automatically clicked item, if applicable
• Client side export in CSV, JSON, XML, XLSX
• Possibility to hide/show columns
• Client side localization of tables
• Strategies to format dates, numbers and custom properties
• Allows to define functions to fetch table related data (for example, dictionaries to display filters views) and to cache this result automatically
• Themes