Documentation request: Is the index property required?

[DanKaplanSES]

After looking at most of the examples, I don't think an index column is required, but the majority of the documentation has a column by that name, including every example on the Adding Rows page. If this column isn't required, I think this is the place to say it. Otherwise, it's implied that it must be manually set by the user.

[ayonious]

hi @DanKaplanSES index is not required. You can try out yourself. Here are other examples of this:

https://console-table.netlify.app/docs/doc-computed-function
https://console-table.netlify.app/docs/doc-emojis-special-chars

[ayonious]

but I see your point and yes its a better example without using this particular name, which can imply something like this.

[DanKaplanSES]

but I see your point and yes its a better example without using this particular name, which can imply something like this.

Great! Thank you for considering this.

I'd like to add some additional context that may be unnecessary, but might explain how I came to my assumption: I found this library because console.table() lacked some features I wanted.

Incidentally, console.table() automatically includes an index column in its output. Because many console-table-printer examples manually include a column with the same name, I thought the console-table-printer index column may be required as an enhancement to console.table(), allowing you to specify an index separate from insertion order.

I want to reiterate I (now) understand that is not the case, but I thought it might help to shed some insight into my thought process.

Thanks again!

[ayonious]

I have updated some docs to make it more clear that index is not needed. Feel free to open it up again if needed