# TanStack Table

5 Hacker News commenters recommended TanStack Table and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Developers recommend it as a strong, flexible JavaScript library for building data tables, saving them from writing their own reactive table logic.

## Why people recommend it

- Among the best data table libraries (3 comments): "I liked the Table part - best ever, but customization is so complicated due to type enforcement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106326)) "Tanstack always had one of the best data tables by far." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287442)) "a very good JS table library" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694828))

## What people warn about

- Customization is complicated by type enforcement (1 comments): "I liked the Table part - best ever, but customization is so complicated due to type enforcement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106326))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [jQuery](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jquery.md): 111 recommend
- [Picknplace.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/picknplace-js.md): 58 recommend
- [Alpine.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/alpine-js.md): 50 recommend
- [Effect (TypeScript library)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/effect.md): 38 recommend
- [Video.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/video-js.md): 24 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "TanStack Table", https://hackerapproved.com/p/tanstack-table/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).