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This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

Demo made with the lovely Storybook Project.

This is a remake of the incredible react-window lib by @bvaughn. It has optionally "locked" headers on all sides implemented with position: sticky.

Live Demo.

Why

The latest version of Chrome for MacOSX (and it looks like other platforms too) computes scrolling in a separate thread. This is to get the "smooth scrolling effect". However, this means scrolling animates faster than V8/Chrome redraw. Thus, if you want to hook into something scrolling and do something with JavaScript, it won't be synchronized. If you want "sticky headers", this is a big problem. You can get it pretty performant using absolute positioning (see SyncedTable in this repo), which will be perfectly synchronized on standard monitors. However, it failed on a Macbook Pro screen.

I turned to position: sticky, which is essentially designed for this use case. This component (and the component in the demo) is StickyTable.

Compatibility

This uses hooks and requires React 16.8+.

position: sticky, and thus this, won't work in some browsers, including IE11. There are ways to work around it, namely this library.

npm start

Runs the storybook demo. Open http://localhost:6006/ to view it in the browser.

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Virtualized table that has freezable header rows/columns. Inspired HEAVILY by https://github.com/bvaughn/react-window/

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