@adapttable/base-ui

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The Base UI adapter for AdaptTable — a batteries-included Base UI data table with sorting, filtering, URL-synced state, selection + bulk actions, RTL, and dark mode. Built on the headless @adapttable/core engine. (Targets @base-ui/react ^1.6.)

pnpm add @adapttable/base-ui @adapttable/core @base-ui/react react react-dom

Import the adapter styles once in your app entry (or rely on the side-effect import from @adapttable/base-ui):

import "@adapttable/base-ui/styles.css";

Requires Node.js 22.12.0 or newer; packed releases are tested on Node 22.12 and Node 24.

Quickstart

import {
  DataTable,
  useFrontendData,
  type ColumnDef,
} from "@adapttable/base-ui";

interface Person {
  id: string;
  name: string;
  email: string;
}

const columns: ColumnDef<Person>[] = [
  { key: "name", header: "Name", accessor: (r) => r.name, sortable: true },
  { key: "email", header: "Email", accessor: (r) => r.email },
];

export function PeopleTable({ data }: { data: Person[] }) {
  const source = useFrontendData({ data, columns });
  return <DataTable source={source} columns={columns} rowKey={(r) => r.id} />;
}

Behavior lives in @adapttable/core; this package only renders Base UI primitives (Popover, Drawer, Select, Checkbox, Tooltip, Button, Input) plus minimal chrome CSS.

Features

• Automatic mobile cards — below the mobile breakpoint every row renders as a card (same filters, search, selection and URL state) and infinite scroll replaces the pager; tune per column with mobileLabel / hideOnMobile, pin either layout with forceMobile. See it flip live.
• Client or server data through one TableSource contract — same props either way.
• Global search box — debounced; matches each row's searchable text on client data and hands the term to the backend on a server tier. Turn it off with searchable={false}.
• URL-synced search / sort / filters / page — shareable, deep-linkable links.
• Sorting via sortable headers.
• Filtering — a Popover or Dialog of filters plus removable chips, with a filter count on the trigger. Nested AND/OR filter tree in the same panel.
• Header filters (headerFilters()) — a funnel in each filtered column's header opens the same field as the Filters panel, bound to the same state, URL params and chips.
• Custom filter types (filterTypes([...])) — register a FilterTypeSpec with its own widget, operators and predicate; it gets the form field, header funnel, URL params and chips.
• Selection + bulk actions using Base UI Checkboxes, composed with bulkActions(...).
• Row actions with optional confirm, isHidden / isDisabled per row.
• Row expansion — inline detail panels via rowDetail(...).
• Nested tables (nestedTable(...)) — a full DataTable with its own columns, sorting and paging inside an expanded row.
• Inline cell editing (editing(handler) + editable columns) — text, number and select editors; Enter commits, Escape cancels, Tab moves on. Omit the handler and no cell opens.
• Row reordering (rowReorder(handler)) — drag handle, Space-lift keyboard, dataset-relative indices.
• Row pinning (rowPinning(...)) — sticky top and bottom rows outside the virtual window.
• Pinned summary rows (pinnedSummaryRows(...)) — host-owned totals stuck outside sort, filter, grouping, pagination and selection, including on grouped and tree tables.
• Row and column spanning (cellSpan(...)) — one cell list per row; covered cells are omitted.
• Full-width and separator rows (extraRows(...)) — host-injected slots spliced in by beforeRowId.
• Row styling and heights (rowAppearance(...)) — conditional inline style and per-row height.
• Keyboard cell navigation (cellNavigation()) — one tab stop, arrow keys, ARIA grid semantics and screen-reader announcements. It is also the gate for cell-range selection, clipboard copy/paste of a range, and the fill handle.
• Row grouping (grouping(...) or groupingPanel(...)) — one column key or an ordered list to nest, with per-group aggregates.
• Aggregation — a footer summaryRow, group subtotals from aggregatable columns, and built-in or custom aggregate() operations; totals recompute from the filtered rows.
• Pivot tables — rows, columns and measures with subtotals, from the optional @adapttable/core/pivot entry.
• Tree data (tree(...)) — hierarchical rows with expand/collapse, on desktop and on cards.
• Column management — show/hide, reorder, pin (sticky) and resize, plus collapsible column groups.
• Sparkline columns (@adapttable/react/sparkline) — bar, line and area as inline SVG. The base bundle never pays for it.
• PDF export and print layout (@adapttable/core/pdf) — optional entry; pdfWriter() on exportCsv, printTable for the browser dialog.
• Formula engine (@adapttable/core/formula) — spreadsheet formulas over rows and aggregates; circular refs report #CYCLE!.
• Feature composition (features={[rowReorder(fn)]}) from @adapttable/base-ui/row-reorder-style subpaths — the import is the switch, and standardFeatures() on the /preset entry is the one-import path. Host plugins share the same setup(host) surface.
• Saved views — name a filter/sort/column arrangement and switch between them.
• CSV export (exportCsv(...)) — current page, the full filtered set, or the selected rows; choose the columns, or hand the whole thing to your backend.
• XLSX export (@adapttable/core/xlsx) — optional entry; xlsxWriter() on exportCsv writes a real .xlsx workbook with no extra dependency.
• Command palette and context menus (commandPalette(), contextMenu()) — Cmd/Ctrl+K opens a searchable list of table actions; right-click opens a menu for the header, row or cell.
• View controls — densityChooser(), fullscreen(), print(...), statusBar(), selectionStats(), sidePanel(...) and undoRedoButtons(), each an opt-in toolbar control from its own subpath.
• Virtualization (virtualize(...)) — opt-in row/card windowing for very large lists.
• Pagination — numbered pagination, or infinite scroll (auto by device).
• SSR & server components — renders with no DOM; the client boundary is already in the build, so it drops straight into the Next.js App Router. Docs.
• States — skeleton loading, error with retry, and an empty state.
• RTL via dir; dark mode follows your theme tokens.
• Customisation — slots, className, injectable confirm — Base UI ships unstyled, so every part is yours, and the full headless escape hatch via @adapttable/react.

See it work

Each clip is the real adapter, recorded on the live demo.

Row grouping — group rows by a column with per-group subtotals

Inline cell editing — double-click a cell; text, number and select editors

Filtering — type a bound and the table answers as you type

Column management — show, hide, reorder, pin and resize

RTL / Arabic — the whole table mirrors, not just the text

Links

• Live demo
• Documentation
• StackBlitz starter

License

MIT © Orwa Mahmoud