Table node, best practice

Dashboard
1

I was wondering what is the best practice to build more advance tables.
You have dashboard 2.0 table node and ui-tabilator. I also find video's on template nodes.

I want to build some advance table nodes and what to get off on the best way.

Thank you
Filip

2

You can pretty much make any table, of any style you desire in the ui-template.

You can 100% DIY it or build on the examples here: All Vuetify Components — Vuetify including nesting of cards and sparkles and anything else you need.

There is no "best practice".

1 Like
3

You haven't been explicit about what front-end you want to use for this. There are 4 current front ends, paired http-in/-response nodes, Dashboard 1 (which is no longer being updated), Dashboard 2 and UIBUILDER for Node-RED.

If you want to build something that accommodates all of them (and potentially web apps outside of node-red as well), I would strongly recommend looking at building a web component. Check out my example components if you want some ideas.

If you really want to build another node-red node, you will need to decide which front end you will target.

Also note that my uib-element node as a table output feature - though currently it is relatively simple in nature. The uibuilder front-end library has additional tools for building tables as well. A more complex output node for tables would be welcome (e.g. with column formatting, editing features, etc) and I would be happy to help you get going on in.