ReactTable HOC fixed columns

Higher Order Components for ReactTable. It make possible to fixed 1 or more columns.

Demo here

Config

npm install react-table-hoc-fixed-columns --save

It's really simple: add fixed property to your columns:

import ReactTable from 'react-table';
import createTable from 'react-table-hoc-fixed-columns';
const ReactTableFixedColumns = createTable(ReactTable);
...
render () {
  return (
    <ReactTableFixedColumns
      data={data}
      columns={[
        {
          Header: 'First Name',
          accessor: 'firstName',
          fixed: true,
        },
        {
          Header: 'Last Name',
          accessor: 'lastName',
          fixed: true,
        },
        {
          Header: 'age',
          accessor: 'age',
        },
        {
          Header: 'other',
          columns: [
            ...
          ]
        },
      ]}
    />
  )
}

Notes:

• It's a workaround, because the main ReactTable package currently not provide a way to have fixed columns.
• animation is not always smooth, it depend on your browser, OS, and scroll trigger (mouse wheel or scroll bar), but it works.
• fixed columns must be placed a the index 0
• fixed columns cannot be placed in a group
• fixed columns are resizable
• fixed columns must have a hardcoded width, by default it's 150

Table Ref

If you need to access ReactTable ref, use innerRef:

render () {
  return (
    <ReactTableFixedColumns
      innerRef={(ref) => { this.tableRef = ref; }}
    />
  )
}

Dev

Follow these steps to get started developing :

• git clone https://github.com/guillaumejasmin/react-table-hoc-fixed-columns.git
• npm install
• npm run lib:watch - Transpile the src/lib folder in watch mode
• npm run docs - start a development server with the demo website based on the src/docs folder.
• Go to http://127.0.0.1:8181 to see the demo in action. Whenever you change the code in either src/lib or src/docs, the page will automatically update.