AdaptTable for Tailwind

Live updates in Tailwind

Rows patch in as they arrive, the way a websocket would. This page applies one budget change at a time so the movement is followable.

Patches go through the row-patch API rather than replacing the array, so search, filters and sort re-run for the touched rows only — your scroll and selection survive.

The feed lists every patch as it lands. The table is Tailwind.

The feed is the host's chrome; a patched budget is an ordinary cell carrying the map's classes, with a new number inside it.

The code

import { DataTable } from "@adapttable/unstyled";
import { applyRowPatches, updateRow } from "@adapttable/core";

export function People({ rows, columns, setRows }) {
  const patchBudget = (id, budget) =>
    setRows(
      applyRowPatches(
        rows,
        [updateRow(id, { budget })],
        (row) => row.id
      )
    );
  return (
    <DataTable
      data={rows}
      columns={columns}
      rowKey={(row) => row.id}
    />
  );
}

Install

pnpm add @adapttable/unstyled @adapttable/core

The same feature in the other kits

• Live updates in Mantine — Rounded, friendly, filled controls
• Live updates in MUI — Material elevation, uppercase actions
• Live updates in Chakra — Soft teal, generous radius
• Live updates in Ant Design — Compact, tinted header, crisp
• Live updates in Radix — Radix Themes, iris accent
• Live updates in Base UI — Unstyled primitives, blue accent
• Live updates in shadcn — Monochrome, ring focus

More Tailwind features

• Filtering in Tailwind — Kit-native operators, date ranges, checklists, an AND/OR tree, chips.
• Column management in Tailwind — Show, hide, reorder, pin and resize — from a menu you did not write.
• Column groups in Tailwind — Spanning headers that collapse to a stub, a kept child, or a custom cell.
• Row selection in Tailwind — A set of ids that survives paging, with bulk actions over it.
• Rows in Tailwind — Pin, drag-reorder, merge cells, and a 3-dot menu per row.
• Inline cell editing in Tailwind — Kit-native editors in the cell; every write goes through your handler.
• Row grouping in Tailwind — Nested group headers with counts, subtotals, footers and collapse state.
• Nested tables in Tailwind — A real table under a row — same engine, own columns, own keys.
• Export and print in Tailwind — CSV, XLSX and PDF from one seam — plus a real print layout.
• Large datasets in Tailwind — 100k rows, 40 columns, virtualized rows and columns, sticky chrome.
• Tree data in Tailwind — Rows that contain rows — nesting, chevrons, keyboard traversal.
• Mobile cards in Tailwind — Every row becomes a card on phones. Automatically, with the same state.
• Pivot tables in Tailwind — Rows down the side, dimensions across the top, subtotals at every level.
• Saved views in Tailwind — Name an arrangement, share it as a link, manage the list in place.
• Spreadsheet formulas in Tailwind — Computed columns typed as formulas, errors reported in the cell.
• Right-to-left Tailwind data table — Arabic strings, a flipped axis, and a popover that opens from the right edge.
• Accessible Tailwind data table — Arrow-key focus, a visible ring, and every announcement shown as text.

Reference: realtime, cell-editing. More of this kit: AdaptTable for Tailwind, or the live demo.