React Table

The @tanstack/react-table adapter wraps @tanstack/table-core with React-specific reactivity, rendering helpers, and types. It installs the React coreReativityFeature for you, so table state is backed by TanStack Store atoms while React components can subscribe through useTable, selectors, and table.Subscribe.

TanStack Table v9 is explicit about what a table uses. Register features with _features, and register client-side row model factories with _rowModels. The core row model is included by default, so a basic table can use _rowModels: {}.

Creating a Table

Use useTable to create a React table instance.

tsx

import { tableFeatures, useTable, type ColumnDef } from '@tanstack/react-table'

type Person = {
  firstName: string
  lastName: string
  age: number
}

const _features = tableFeatures({})

const columns: Array<ColumnDef<typeof _features, Person>> = [
  {
    accessorKey: 'firstName',
    header: 'First name',
    cell: (info) => info.getValue(),
  },
]

function App({ data }: { data: Person[] }) {
  const table = useTable({
    _features,
    _rowModels: {},
    columns,
    data,
  })

  return null
}

import { tableFeatures, useTable, type ColumnDef } from '@tanstack/react-table'

type Person = {
  firstName: string
  lastName: string
  age: number
}

const _features = tableFeatures({})

const columns: Array<ColumnDef<typeof _features, Person>> = [
  {
    accessorKey: 'firstName',
    header: 'First name',
    cell: (info) => info.getValue(),
  },
]

function App({ data }: { data: Person[] }) {
  const table = useTable({
    _features,
    _rowModels: {},
    columns,
    data,
  })

  return null
}

For feature-specific row models, register the feature and put the row model factory under _rowModels.

tsx

import {
  createPaginatedRowModel,
  createSortedRowModel,
  rowPaginationFeature,
  rowSortingFeature,
  sortFns,
  tableFeatures,
} from '@tanstack/react-table'

const _features = tableFeatures({
  rowPaginationFeature,
  rowSortingFeature,
})

const tableOptions = {
  _features,
  _rowModels: {
    paginatedRowModel: createPaginatedRowModel(),
    sortedRowModel: createSortedRowModel(sortFns),
  },
}

import {
  createPaginatedRowModel,
  createSortedRowModel,
  rowPaginationFeature,
  rowSortingFeature,
  sortFns,
  tableFeatures,
} from '@tanstack/react-table'

const _features = tableFeatures({
  rowPaginationFeature,
  rowSortingFeature,
})

const tableOptions = {
  _features,
  _rowModels: {
    paginatedRowModel: createPaginatedRowModel(),
    sortedRowModel: createSortedRowModel(sortFns),
  },
}

Table State

Table state is managed with TanStack Store atoms in v9. For most tables, you do not need to manage table state yourself: set initialState when you need starting values, and use feature APIs like table.nextPage(), table.setSorting(...), and row.toggleSelected() instead of mutating state directly.

Use atoms when your app should own one state slice with TanStack Store. Use state with the matching on[State]Change option for simple React state integration or migration paths.

tsx

import { useCreateAtom } from '@tanstack/react-store'
import {
  rowPaginationFeature,
  tableFeatures,
  useTable,
  type PaginationState,
} from '@tanstack/react-table'

const _features = tableFeatures({
  rowPaginationFeature,
})

function App({ data }: { data: Person[] }) {
  const paginationAtom = useCreateAtom<PaginationState>({
    pageIndex: 0,
    pageSize: 10,
  })

  const table = useTable({
    _features,
    _rowModels: {},
    columns,
    data,
    atoms: {
      pagination: paginationAtom,
    },
  })

  return null
}

import { useCreateAtom } from '@tanstack/react-store'
import {
  rowPaginationFeature,
  tableFeatures,
  useTable,
  type PaginationState,
} from '@tanstack/react-table'

const _features = tableFeatures({
  rowPaginationFeature,
})

function App({ data }: { data: Person[] }) {
  const paginationAtom = useCreateAtom<PaginationState>({
    pageIndex: 0,
    pageSize: 10,
  })

  const table = useTable({
    _features,
    _rowModels: {},
    columns,
    data,
    atoms: {
      pagination: paginationAtom,
    },
  })

  return null
}

For reactive reads, the second argument to useTable selects from table.store and exposes the result on table.state. For large tables, table.Subscribe can subscribe smaller parts of the UI to selected state or individual atoms. See the Table State Guide and the Basic Subscribe example.

Rendering Headers, Cells, and Footers

Use table.FlexRender to render column header, cell, and footer definitions. It handles plain values and React components.

tsx

<tbody>
  {table.getRowModel().rows.map((row) => (
    <tr key={row.id}>
      {row.getVisibleCells().map((cell) => (
        <td key={cell.id}>
          <table.FlexRender cell={cell} />
        </td>
      ))}
    </tr>
  ))}
</tbody>

<tbody>
  {table.getRowModel().rows.map((row) => (
    <tr key={row.id}>
      {row.getVisibleCells().map((cell) => (
        <td key={cell.id}>
          <table.FlexRender cell={cell} />
        </td>
      ))}
    </tr>
  ))}
</tbody>

createTableHook

createTableHook creates an app-specific table hook. Use it when multiple tables should share _features, _rowModels, default options, column helpers, and component conventions.

tsx

import { createTableHook, tableFeatures } from '@tanstack/react-table'

const { useAppTable, createAppColumnHelper } = createTableHook({
  _features: tableFeatures({}),
  _rowModels: {},
})

const columnHelper = createAppColumnHelper<Person>()

function App({ data }: { data: Person[] }) {
  const table = useAppTable({
    columns,
    data,
  })

  return null
}

import { createTableHook, tableFeatures } from '@tanstack/react-table'

const { useAppTable, createAppColumnHelper } = createTableHook({
  _features: tableFeatures({}),
  _rowModels: {},
})

const columnHelper = createAppColumnHelper<Person>()

function App({ data }: { data: Person[] }) {
  const table = useAppTable({
    columns,
    data,
  })

  return null
}

See the createTableHook Guide and the Composable Tables example for the full pattern.

API Reference

See the React API Reference.

Creating a Table#

Table State#

Rendering Headers, Cells, and Footers#

createTableHook#

API Reference#

Creating a Table

Table State

Rendering Headers, Cells, and Footers

createTableHook

API Reference