Why is there no standard/widely used vanilla-js based webcomponent for creating a table with filtering+sorting+pagination? It's such a common and useful thing.
Possibly the same reason there's no standard way to get a file browsing widget from a linux native applications, despite it being a common and useful thing.
None of them are standard. It should be baked into the cake. It's been a puzzler to me since I started programming over 20 years ago. Every third-party library existed basically just to provide a usable grid because most everything else was good enough. Combo boxes and date pickers too but those were less of a pain to implement.
The eventual aim of Open-UI is to establish a set of standard UI components like this.
> The purpose of Open UI to the web platform is to allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI controls, such as <select> dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons, and date/color pickers.
> Today, component frameworks and design systems reinvent common web UI controls to give designers full control over their appearance and behavior. We hope to make it unnecessary to reinvent built-in UI controls
There's various bits and pieces around the margins of grid/table/sorting that make it so it doesn't surprise me that it's not natively provided.
But the lack of a combobox in HTML, I don't get at all. datalist kind of sort of does it but not quite, plus it's inconsistently implemented as to what it actually shows.
Just take filtering - there are so many possibilities of how filters can look like, how can they be combined (AND, OR, nested) etc.