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AG Grid Blog
Company blog · ag-grid.com/blogprogrammingweb
AG Grid Blog is the company blog at ag-grid.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “AG Grid: A fully-featured and highly customizable JavaScript data grid”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (22) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link AG Grid's site when recommending or comparing JavaScript data grid libraries. Its pages on API design, viewport interfaces and grid state are cited as examples.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 22 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- AG Grid: A fully-featured and highly customizable JavaScript data grid11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2018-11-30
- /example/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-11
What Hacker News says?
The cost doesn't seem that different from ag-grid[0] (which is also fairly popular) and costs like $750 per developer per year. https://www.ag-grid.com/license-pricing.php
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on “How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS”Submitted WebMCP in a Dashboard (With AG Studio) as a story · 8 points
HN discussion> I don't think there's an alternative to datatables that even comes close to being as well put together. One of my projects uses ag-Grid[1]. It works very well and doesn't depend on jQuery. There are lots of others to choose from, including FancyGrid[2] and a vanilla-JS version of datatables[3]. ag-Grid has paying enterprise clients that contractually obligate the developers to continue support. As a guarantee of f…
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on “Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a programming language/paradigm?”Submitted From Embedded Dashboards to Programmable Analytics as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAG Grid should be able to handle more than that: https://www.ag-grid.com/javascript-data-grid/massive-row-cou...
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on “Show HN: Datagridxl2.js – Fast Excel-like data table library”Submitted Webpack Tutorial: Understanding ngtools/webpack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wandered into the comments to find or write the correct "before times" bit, and I think this covers everything I would've mentioned. I'll add that looking back, EXT seemed to be a bit ahead of its time. Its data/table view rivals AG Grid [0] of today. If we could've just standardized on a table view by now, but alas. AG Grid - [Ag Grid, agnostic JS table framework]( https://www.ag-grid.com/ )
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on “Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks”Submitted Webpack Tutorial: Understanding How It Works as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you like React Table, you might like AG Grid: https://www.ag-grid.com/
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on “React Table is a “headless” UI library”Submitted Ag-Grid v7: AOT and Angular 2 Components as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe difference is that jQuery directly modifies the DOM while React/Vue/Angular/Svelte are all designed to react to some data and automatically render based on it. The simplest table components create an HTML structure by repeating a <TR> for an array of data you pass in, with the columns being the keys. More complex ones let you define your own components to render each row and cell, and have internal state and log…
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on “React Table is a “headless” UI library”Submitted Ag-Grid – The Enterprise Datagrid for Aurelia as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt will be a heck of API to agree on. And then to implement correctly. As another poster linked ag-grid this is how API surface should look like: https://www.ag-grid.com/javascript-grid-server-side-model/
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on “Designing better data tables (2017)”Submitted Ag-Grid, the JavaScript Data Grid, Goes Commercial as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI highly recommend ag-grid, it works well with React. The free version is MIT licensed, while the paid enterprise features are open source on Github, but not free to use. https://www.ag-grid.com/
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on “Designing better data tables (2017)”Submitted 8 performance hacks for JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>But that would require some kind of open standard for portability, no? I like the approach AGGrid uses - they provide a viewport based interface that the grid uses to display data, and you can implement that interface on top of your data model - https://www.ag-grid.com/javascript-data-grid/viewport/ . Unfortunately it's only available in their enterprise version, but this approach scales to both grid and chart base…
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on “A Tiny Grammar of Graphics”Submitted Building a React Datagrid Using Redux and Ag-Grid as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Where is the native HTML datagrid Which parts of a datagrid should a browser provide? I'm familiar with AG Grid [1] and the API surface is enormous. Aligning browsers on a feature set would be challenging. Maybe there's a core set of functionality, like Flutter's GridView or QML https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtquick-gridview.html . [1]: https://www.ag-grid.com/
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on “Customizable HTML Select”Submitted Ag-Grid and webpack announce partnership as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPerhaps `ag-grid` : https://ag-grid.com/best-react-data-grid/
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on “The rise and fall of Ext JS”Submitted Using VueJS Components in Ag-Grid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLooks really interesting! I was evaluating grid/table projects a while ago for use on project where I wanted high performance with big data sets with custom row rendering and it's obviously a nontrivial problem. There's tons of libraries out there, each with their own quirks and endless issues being posted on their bug trackers. I ended up using https://www.ag-grid.com/ which started charging for features and appear…
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on “Show HN: Tabulator – Easy-to-use JavaScript library for interactive tables”Submitted Understanding AOT and Dynamic Components in Angular 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMaybe see how the library from https://www.ag-grid.com/ does it or just use their library. If you check how many open bugs most JS grid/table projects have, it's clear implementing a robust grid with many features is really hard. I've used ag-grid for projects before and can recommend it (works with all major UI frameworks).
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on “A Case Study of Complex Table Design”Submitted 8 reasons to choose ag-Grid as your JavaScript Datagrid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy favorite feature in AG-grid is https://www.ag-grid.com/javascript-data-grid/range-selection... Wish I could find this on an open source grid.
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on “Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere (2020)”Submitted AG Grid: A fully-featured and highly customizable JavaScript data grid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhilst this is more than a simple HTML table, I wouldn't consider it advance compared to full data-grid examples like https://www.ag-grid.com/ .
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on “Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere (2020)”Submitted Vuestic UI collaborates with AG Grid to empower users as a story · 1 points
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