🐞 Bug Fixes 🐞

• setting defaultSortFieldId now works properly
• added back alias for IDataTableRow (which is now TableRow to make migrating from v6 to v7 easier

🥃 New Features 🥃

• allow importing TableRow type

📜 Documentation 📜

• fixes some documentation issues
• adds typescript docs
• adds pattern docs

🏡 Housekeeping 🏡

• refactor to naming of components
• internal tweaks to types
• refactored sorting styles to be more customizable where possible

TypeScript Projects with React Data Table

React Data Table is built with TypeScript so typings are buit in. Let's implement React Data Table in a TypeScript project:

First, we'll need to define our data type (or interface):

import DataTable, { TableColumn } from 'react-data-table-component';

type DataRow {
	title: string;
	director: string;
	year: string;
}

Alternatively, if you want to define DataRow as an interface you will need to extend the built in TableRow type:

import DataTable, { TableColumn, TableRow } from 'react-data-table-component';

interface DataRow extends TableRow {
	title: string;
	director: string;
	year: string;
}

Next, we can create our columns. TableColumn is an interface representing a column definition that takes a generic parameter. By passing TableColumn<DataRow>[] we now have access to our dataRow props on any property in our table columns for any propery that accesses our data:

const columns: TableColumn<DataRow>[] = [
	{
		name: 'Title',
		selector: row => row.title,
	},
	{
		name: 'Director',
		selector: row => row.director,
	},
	{
		name: 'Year',
		selector: row => row.year,
	},
];

Finally, we can implement our TypeScript component that uses DataTable:

function MyComponent(): JSX.Element {
	return <DataTable columns={columns} data={data} />;
}

Alternatively, if you prefer using React.FC:

const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
	return <DataTable columns={columns} data={data} />;
};

Putting it all together:

import DataTable, { TableColumn } from 'react-data-table-component';

type DataRow {
	title: string;
	director: string;
	year: string;
}

const columns: TableColumn<DataRow>[] = [
	{
		name: 'Title',
		selector: row => row.title,
	},
	{
		name: 'Director',
		selector: row => row.director,
	},
	{
		name: 'Year',
		selector: row => row.year,
	},
];

function MyComponent(): JSX.Element {
	return <DataTable columns={columns} data={data} />;
}

export default MyComponent;