TItilt·Dec 14, 2013Submission
Dynatable.js: HTML5+JSON interactive table plugin
64 points · Open discussionalfajango
jquery-dynatable
JavaScript2013–2018
alfajango / jquery-dynatable
jquery-dynatable
A more-fun, semantic, alternative to datatables
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI've written a plugin that actually does this. I haven't had time to write the documentation yet, but our Dynatable plugin [1] has been in use for almost 2 years now.
It's an alternative to the Datatables plugin. All its logic works on the set of data in JSON, so it first translates an html table into JSON, then vice versa.
The cool thing about this process is, you can write your own translate step to easily work with e.g. JSON from an Ajax request. And you can write your own render step to work with e.g. a styled list instead of a table.
By default, the translate step translates an html table to a JSON object, naming the attributes by the table column headings (underscore format by default, but can be hyphenated, snake-case, or lower-case too).
[1] http://os.alfajango.com/dynatable
EDIT: If anyone is interested, the part of the plugin th
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at essentially does the "table to JSON" part is the getFromTable function here: https://github.com/JangoSteve/jquery-dynatable/blob/master/j...
Other useful things this function does is, determines whether the data is a string, number, boolean, or date (or other user-defined type) to do proper column sorting logic, and much more.
EDIT 2: Also, I can't speak for the author of the table-to-json plugin, but for dynatable, it's useful to have data-override values for the cells for cases like when you have a date in "Jan 1, 2013" format, which is meaningless when doing filter or sorting operations on the JSON; i.e. you could use the data-override to populate the proper date format so JS knows how to process it.