SvGrid Blog - Svelte Data Grid Tips & Guides

157 practical, copy-paste tips and the story behind building a Svelte 5 data grid: sorting, filtering, virtualization, editing, server-side data, theming, and more.

Featured

• Svelte 5 Tips and Tricks: Runes, Snippets, and More - A practical, growing list of Svelte 5 tips - $state, $derived, snippets, $bindable and the runes patterns that replace stores and slots, each with a code snippet.
• Svelte Data Grid Comparisons and Alternatives (2026) - The complete hub for choosing a Svelte data grid: honest comparisons, alternatives to popular grids, build-vs-buy, and migration guides from every major library.
• Svelte Data Grid Guides and Tutorials - Learn to build with a Svelte data grid: editing, filtering, sorting, grouping, selection, columns, cells, performance, theming, and real-world use cases.
• Connecting a Svelte Data Grid to Any Backend or Framework - Every integration guide for a Svelte data grid in one place: Supabase, Prisma, Drizzle, GraphQL, tRPC, Firebase, REST, SvelteKit SSR, Astro, Tauri, and more.
• SvGrid Studio Tips and Tricks: Build Svelte Data Apps, Fast - Practical SvGrid Studio tips - AI app generation, a designer that emits real SvelteKit, schema-driven edit forms, code-behind with ctx.grid, production auth/data/deploy toggles, and real data-source binding - each with a snippet.
• SvGrid Tips and Tricks: Get More from Your Svelte Data Grid - Practical SvGrid tips - fitColumns, cellFlash, Kanban board mode, server-side data, theming tokens and headless rendering - each with a code snippet and docs link.
• SvGrid UI Components Tips and Tricks: Svelte 5 Buttons, Inputs, Tree, Forms - Practical tips for the SvGrid UI component kit - SvButton states, a Cmd+K command palette, a virtualized searchable tree, schema-driven forms, a parsing date/time field, and the shared field contract - each with a code snippet.
• Why the World Needed Another Grid - Every framework era produces the data grid it deserves. jqxGrid for jQuery, component-based grids for Angular and React, and now SvGrid - built natively on Svelte 5 runes, not adapted to them.

Tutorials

• Saved Views - Persist Grid Layout and Filters - Give users named, switchable snapshots of column order, sorting, filters, and grouping - persisted to localStorage or a server adapter - using SvGrid's createNamedViews API.
• Building a SaaS Billing and Usage Table in Svelte - How to build a production billing grid with locale-aware currency formatting, grouped subtotals by cost category, and CSV export that matches what is on screen.
• Row Drag-and-Drop Reordering in a Svelte Data Grid - Wire up drag-to-reorder rows in SvGrid using a handle cell, native HTML5 drag events, and a reactive state array - no library required.
• A Right-Click Context Menu for Your Svelte Data Grid - Build a right-click context menu that wires row actions, handles multi-row selection, and stays out of the way of SvGrid's own event handling.
• Building a Real-Time Trading Grid in Svelte - How to wire a WebSocket tick feed into SvGrid without dropping frames - rAF batching, stable row identity, flash animations, and the exact patterns that scale past 150 ticks per second.
• Building a Project / Task Board with a Svelte Data Grid - How to build a task management grid with grouping by status or assignee, inline edits, subtask tree rows, and saved views - without reaching for a dedicated project management tool.
• Progress and Percentage Bar Cells in SvGrid - Build in-cell progress bars in your Svelte 5 data grid - with color thresholds, accessible markup, and sorting that still works.
• Paste from Excel into a Svelte Data Grid - How to wire up clipboard paste so users can drop a copied Excel or Google Sheets block directly into SvGrid - TSV parsing, type coercion, validation, and row growth all covered.
• Building an Order Management Dashboard in Svelte - How to wire up an order management grid with master-detail line items, status workflows, server-side data, and bulk fulfillment actions using SvGrid.
• Multi-Level (Grouped) Column Headers in SvGrid - Band related columns under a shared parent header using SvGrid's nested column definition - how to nest, pin, combine with sorting and filtering, and when NOT to use grouping.
• Building a Logistics / Fleet Tracking Grid in Svelte - How to build a live fleet operations grid with real-time telemetry updates, expandable trip history, and exception-first row styling.
• Building a Log Viewer for Large Logs in Svelte - How to build a production-ready log viewer with SvGrid - virtualization for millions of lines, severity coloring, live tailing with scroll-lock, and server-side filtering.
• Building an IoT Sensor Dashboard in Svelte - How to build a live IoT sensor dashboard with SvGrid - high-frequency updates, sparkline trends, threshold alerts, and stale-device detection that all stay smooth at scale.
• Building an Inventory Management Grid in Svelte - Stock levels, low-stock highlighting, inline edits, bulk updates, and CSV import - a practical inventory grid built with SvGrid.
• Importing CSV into a Svelte Data Grid - Parse a user-uploaded CSV file into objects, map its headers to grid columns, validate rows before committing, and handle the edge cases that actually bite you in production.
• A Fill Handle (Drag to Fill) in SvGrid - Build a working spreadsheet-style fill handle on top of SvGrid's cell selection and editing - pointer tracking, range highlighting, series fill, and undo/redo integration all covered.
• Empty, Loading, and Error States for a Svelte Data Grid - How to handle the three non-data states in a Svelte grid - empty (with two subtypes), skeleton loading that does not flash, and recoverable errors that keep existing rows visible.
• An Editable Select / Dropdown Cell in SvGrid - Build a dropdown cell editor in SvGrid using a Svelte 5 snippet - constrain user input to a fixed option set while keeping sort, filter, and undo working on the underlying value.
• Building an E-commerce Product Catalog Grid in Svelte - How to build a product catalog admin grid with image cells, inline price and stock edits, category filtering, and bulk updates using SvGrid.
• A Density (Row-Height) Toggle for SvGrid - Let users pick compact, comfortable, or spacious rows - wired through CSS tokens, synced with the virtualizer, and persisted across sessions.
• A Date-Picker Cell Editor in SvGrid - How to make date columns editable with a real date picker in SvGrid - including display formatting, time zone handling, and validation that preserves user input.
• A Custom Column Header Menu in SvGrid - Build a per-column header menu for sort, hide, pin, and custom actions using header snippets and your own dropdown component.
• Building a CRM Contacts Table in Svelte - How to build a CRM contacts grid with avatar cells, status badges, inline editing, named views per rep, and bulk actions using SvGrid.
• Copy a Cell Range to the Clipboard in SvGrid - How SvGrid copies selected cell ranges as tab-separated values that paste cleanly into Excel and Google Sheets, plus headers, programmatic copy, and format control.
• Conditional Row Styling in SvGrid - Drive row-level background tints, classes, and styles from your data - overdue invoices, failed jobs, VIP records - without touching the DOM directly.
• A Column Show/Hide Toggle in SvGrid - Build a column chooser panel that lets users show or hide columns at runtime, with persistence across page loads and a guard against hiding everything.
• Cell Tooltips Done Right in a Data Grid - Tooltips in a data grid are either cheap and effective or an accessibility and performance trap. Here is how to build them correctly in SvGrid.
• Avatar and Image Cells in SvGrid - How to render avatars, product thumbnails, and logos in grid cells with proper fallbacks, lazy loading, and accessible alt text using Svelte 5 snippets.
• An Autocomplete Cell Editor in SvGrid - Build a typeahead cell editor from scratch - filtering suggestions as the user types, committing cleanly on selection, and handling remote data without leaking requests.
• Building an Admin User-Management Screen in Svelte - A blueprint for a user-management grid with roles, status badges, inline edits, bulk actions, and server-side data - the patterns that keep this screen secure and usable.
• An Actions Column (Edit, Delete) in SvGrid - Build a per-row actions column with edit, delete, and duplicate buttons in SvGrid - handling data mutations, accessibility, and confirmation flows correctly.
• Building an Admin Dashboard in Svelte 5 - A practical walkthrough for wiring SvGrid into an admin layout - correct sizing, reactive bulk actions, inline edits with optimistic saves, and a clean handoff to server-side data.
• Render Your First Svelte Data Grid in Under 5 Minutes - How to add a fast, accessible, sortable data grid to a Svelte 5 app with SvGrid - covering data, typed columns, feature composition, and the imperative API.
• Column Definitions in SvGrid - Fields, Accessors, and Formatting - A practical look at how ColumnDef controls field binding, value resolution, sort behavior, and custom cell rendering in SvGrid.
• Multi-Column Sorting in a Svelte Data Grid - How multi-column sorting works in SvGrid, from click behavior and sort priority to server-side ordering and programmatic control via the API.
• Excel-Style Filtering for Your Svelte Data Grid - Per-column filter menus, a filter row, global search, and server-side filtering - all wired through a single columnFilteringFeature in SvGrid.
• Building a Kanban Board in Svelte 5 (Without a Board Library) - How to turn a Svelte data grid into a drag-and-drop Kanban board with one prop - lanes, WIP limits, swimlanes, keyboard moves, and virtualized lanes for large boards.
• Inline Editing with Validation in SvGrid - How to wire up typed cell editors, reject bad input before it reaches your data, and keep per-cell error state without a form library.
• Grouping and Aggregation in a Svelte Data Grid - How to group rows by one or more columns and show per-group sums, averages, and counts using SvGrid's columnGroupingFeature - with real code and the edge cases that actually bite.
• Master-Detail Rows - Expandable Detail Panels in SvGrid - How to wire expandable master-detail rows in SvGrid, from a nested grid of line items to lazy-fetched panels and programmatic expand on deep-link.
• Displaying Tree Data and Hierarchies in SvGrid - Render parent-child hierarchies - org charts, file trees, category taxonomies - in SvGrid with expandable rows, size rollups, and lazy child loading.
• Server-Side Data - Pagination, Sorting, and Filtering on the Backend - Keep 100,000+ rows on the server. SvGrid owns the UI state for sort, filter, and pagination controls - your API owns the data.
• A Sticky Summary / Footer Row in SvGrid - Pin aggregate totals at the bottom of your grid so they stay visible while rows scroll - column footers that recalculate live when filters change.
• Row Selection and Clipboard Copy-Paste in SvGrid - How checkbox row selection, cell range copy, and Excel-compatible clipboard output work together in SvGrid - with a full working example.
• Custom Cell Renderers with Svelte Snippets - Use Svelte 5 snippets to render badges, progress bars, and action buttons inside SvGrid cells - without breaking sort, filter, or keyboard navigation.
• Pinned (Frozen) Columns for Wide Svelte Data Grids - How to pin identity and action columns in SvGrid so users never lose their place while scrolling wide tables - declarative config, runtime API, and the tradeoffs that matter.
• Column Resizing and Reordering - Let Users Shape the Grid - How to wire drag-to-resize and drag-to-reorder in SvGrid, then persist the layout to localStorage so it survives page reloads.
• Sync Grid State to the URL in Svelte - Keep sort, filter, and page state in the URL query string so every grid view is bookmarkable and shareable - with real SvelteKit code.
• Spreadsheet-Style Cell Range Selection in SvGrid - How to enable drag-to-select cell ranges, read live selection state, and build a status-bar footer that sums and averages the selected values.
• Conditional Formatting - Color Cells by Their Value - Four rule types, one prop - add heatmaps, data bars, icon sets, and threshold highlights to any SvGrid column without custom cell renderers.
• Pagination Patterns - Offset, Cursor, and Infinite Scroll - A practical breakdown of offset, cursor, and infinite-scroll pagination for SvGrid - when each pattern fits, how to wire it, and where each one breaks.
• Real-Time Grids - Live WebSocket Updates in SvGrid - How to wire a high-frequency WebSocket feed into SvGrid without frame drops - covering stable row identity, RAF batching, and flash feedback done right.
• Optimistic Updates - A Grid That Feels Instant - Apply cell edits to local state before the server responds, then roll back cleanly on failure. Here is how to wire it in SvGrid with real rollback logic and visual feedback.
• Locale-Aware Number, Date, and Currency Formatting - How SvGrid keeps raw primitives in the row model while rendering locale-correct display strings - so sort and filter never silently break.
• Bulk Operations on Selected Rows in SvGrid - Wire row selection into a contextual action toolbar - bulk edit, delete, and export selected rows with the SvGrid selection API.
• Set Filters and Custom Filter Logic in SvGrid - Build Excel-style checkbox set filters with live facet counts and a custom numeric range filter - using four API calls and plain Svelte markup.

Compare

• Bundle Size of Svelte Data Grids - How to Compare - README bundle numbers are nearly useless. Here is how to measure the real delta a data grid adds to your Svelte app, and why feature-gated architectures change the math entirely.
• svelte-headless-table and the Svelte 5 upgrade: your three options - svelte-headless-table has not shipped since October 2024 and declares svelte@^4. Here are the three real paths off it - the maintained fork, TanStack Table v9, or a rendered grid - and how to tell which one is yours.
• Porting a React MUI X DataGrid Screen to Svelte - A practical mapping from MUI X DataGrid to SvGrid - columns, cell renderers, server-side data, and the hooks that disappear when you switch to Svelte runes.
• Open-Source vs Commercial Svelte Data Grids - A practical breakdown of licensing trade-offs for Svelte data grids - what open-source actually costs you, what commercial actually buys you, and how to think about total cost of ownership before you commit.
• Choosing the Most Accessible Svelte Data Grid - A practical guide to testing data grid accessibility - ARIA roles, keyboard navigation, focus management under virtualization, and screen-reader behavior - so you can verify claims yourself.
• Migrating from Tabulator to SvGrid - A practical migration guide for moving Tabulator tables to SvGrid in Svelte 5 - column defs, formatters, editors, remote data, and the mental model shift from imperative to reactive.
• Migrating from svelte-headless-table to SvGrid - A practical migration guide moving from svelte-headless-table's plugin and Subscribe model to SvGrid's runes-native API, with concrete before/after code and an honest look at the tradeoffs.
• Migrating from Kendo UI Grid to a Svelte Data Grid - A practical migration guide from Kendo UI Grid to SvGrid - column mapping, server-side data, editing, and what to expect when you make the switch.
• Migrating from jqxGrid to SvGrid - A direct migration guide from jqxGrid to SvGrid - written by the same team that built both. Maps data sources, columns, editing, server-side loading, and the imperative API.
• Migrating from Handsontable to SvGrid - A practical migration guide for moving from Handsontable to SvGrid - covering data shape, column config, editors, change callbacks, and the licensing differences that often trigger the move.
• Migrating from DataTables.net to a Svelte Data Grid - A practical migration guide from jQuery DataTables to SvGrid - how column definitions, server-side data, custom rendering, and selection map across, with working code for each step.
• Migrating from ag-grid-react to a Svelte Stack - A practical field guide for porting ag-grid-react screens to SvGrid - column defs, cell renderers, server-side data, and the React-to-Svelte reactivity shift.
• What Makes a Svelte Data Grid Fast (and How to Measure It) - Performance claims are easy to make. Here is how to actually measure grid speed - what metrics matter, what traps to avoid, and what the fundamentals look like in code.
• Migrating from TanStack Table (Svelte) to SvGrid - A practical migration guide from TanStack Table's headless Svelte adapter to SvGrid - covering column definitions, flexRender replacement, row model mapping, and runes-native state.
• Migrating from AG Grid to SvGrid - A practical, honest migration guide - mapping AG Grid concepts like columnDefs, cellRenderer, and the server-side row model onto their SvGrid equivalents.
• Build vs Buy - Should You Build Your Own Svelte Data Table? - A working engineer's breakdown of when a hand-rolled Svelte table is the right call, when it will cost you three sprints, and what the headless middle path actually looks like in code.
• AG Grid Alternatives for Svelte Developers - Comparing AG Grid alternatives for Svelte 5 apps - what each option actually gives you, where each falls short, and how to pick one without regret.
• The Best Svelte Data Grids in 2026 - An Honest Comparison - A working engineer's take on which Svelte data grid to pick in 2026 - native grids, headless engines, and framework-agnostic options - with real code and honest tradeoffs.

Performance

• Reducing Re-Renders in SvGrid with $derived - Svelte 5's $derived memoizes your row pipeline so the grid recomputes only when filter inputs actually change - not on every unrelated state update.
• Measuring Data Grid Performance in DevTools - A practical profiling workflow for SvGrid - how to read the Performance panel, catch virtualization failures, diagnose layout thrash, and make changes that measurably help.
• Lazy-Loading Master-Detail Content in SvGrid - Fetch detail-panel data only when a row is expanded, cache the results, and cancel abandoned requests - keeping a large grid fast without paying for panels no one views.
• Immutable Grid Updates Without Killing Performance - Surgical immutability - how to get predictable reactivity in SvGrid without the cost of cloning everything on every change.
• Avoiding Layout Thrash in Custom Grid Cells - Layout thrash from interleaved DOM reads and writes is the most common cause of scroll jank in grids with custom cells - here is how to find it and design your way out of it.
• Render 100,000 Rows Smoothly with Grid Virtualization - A practical look at how SvGrid keeps a Svelte data grid at 60fps with 100k rows - what virtualization actually does, the one layout requirement that breaks it silently, and why $state.raw matters at scale.
• Performance Tips for SvGrid with Svelte 5 Runes - Stable references, batched transactions, and $state.raw - the three techniques that keep a 30,000-row live grid at 60 fps without heroics.

Engineering

• Runes vs Stores in Svelte 5 - When to Use Which - Svelte 5 runes and stores are not competitors - they solve different problems. Here is a concrete breakdown of when $state wins, when writable still earns its place, and how to mix both without subtle bugs.
• Reactivity with Large Arrays and Objects in Svelte 5 - Deep proxies are powerful but not free. Here is when to pay the cost and when to use $state.raw to keep bulk data loads fast in a SvGrid app.
• Migrating a Svelte 4 Table Component to Svelte 5 - A concept-by-concept guide to porting a hand-rolled Svelte 4 data table to Svelte 5 runes - props, reactivity, stores, slots, events, and when to stop hand-rolling entirely.
• How We Built Excel-Style Filters - How SvGrid implements per-column filter menus, type-aware operators, and a shared filter model that works identically for in-memory and server-side data.
• Going AI-Native: The SvGrid MCP Server - Most AI assistants invent data grid APIs. We built an MCP server so they look up the real one instead.
• $derived vs $derived.by in Svelte 5 - Two forms of the same primitive - when $derived is enough and when $derived.by earns its keep, illustrated with real data grid patterns.
• Inside SvGrid: A Theming System on CSS Variables - How SvGrid uses --sg-* CSS custom properties to make theming a CSS problem, not a JavaScript one - and why that keeps dark mode, design system adoption, and per-grid overrides simple.
• Inside SvGrid: The Row Model and Sorting - How sorting shaped SvGrid's row-model pipeline - the decisions made early that every later feature inherited.
• Inside SvGrid: The Inline Editing Engine - How SvGrid handles inline cell editing - typed editors, an event-based commit model, undo/redo, and why the grid never touches your data directly.
• Inside SvGrid: Grouping, Trees, and Master-Detail - Three different ways to show hierarchy in a data grid, unified under one expansion model in SvGrid - the design decision and how each feature actually works.
• $bindable Props for Grid Controls in Svelte 5 - Two-way binding for grid chrome - search boxes, page-size selectors, density toggles - using $bindable to keep parent state and child input in sync without the usual wiring boilerplate.
• Accessibility from the Ground Up - How SvGrid bakes WAI-ARIA roles and keyboard navigation into the core - not as a post-launch checkbox, but as a design constraint that shaped every feature.
• Inside SvGrid: Server-Side Data and the Headless Core - How SvGrid separates UI state from row processing, and what that means for building grids driven entirely by a backend.
• Headless Core or Render Component? Choosing the Right SvGrid API - SvGrid gives you two surfaces - a headless pipeline and a drop-in component. Here is a practical guide to picking the right one and knowing when to use both together.
• Why We Bet on Svelte 5 Runes for a High-Performance Data Grid - Fine-grained reactivity with $state, $derived, and $effect makes surgical cell updates the default, not the exception - and that changes how you build a data grid.
• The Headless UI Pattern - Separating Logic from Presentation - How SvGrid splits the row-model pipeline from rendering, and when you actually want to reach past the default table and drive the headless layer directly.
• TypeScript Patterns for Data-Heavy Front-End Apps - How ColumnDef generics, discriminated unions, and derived types from constants eliminate a whole class of runtime bugs in data-heavy Svelte apps.
• Web Components - Write Once, Use in React, Vue, and Angular - How to wrap SvGrid as a custom element, wire it across React, Vue, and Angular, and avoid the three interop traps that bite every team the first time.

Guides

• Optimistic UI Explained - What optimistic UI means, why it makes apps feel instant, and how to implement it safely with rollback - using a data grid as the real-world example.
• Immutable Data Updates in Svelte 5 - Svelte 5 runes track both mutation and reassignment, but for grids and lists, the way you update data determines whether re-renders are surgical or wasteful. Here are the patterns that actually hold up.
• Debounce vs Throttle (for Grids and Beyond) - Debounce and throttle are not interchangeable. Here is when each one belongs in your data grid, with real code for filter inputs, live feeds, and scroll.
• CSV vs XLSX vs TSV - Which Export Format? - A practical breakdown of CSV, XLSX, and TSV for data grid exports - when each format earns its keep, what each one silently loses, and how to wire all three in SvGrid.
• Controlled vs Uncontrolled Grid State - Who owns sort, filter, and page state - you or the grid? The answer shapes your whole integration. Here is how to think about it and when each mode pays off.
• Column Virtualization Explained - Row virtualization is well understood, but wide grids expose a second bottleneck. Here is how column virtualization works, when you actually need it, and what trade-offs to expect.
• Aggregation Functions Explained (Sum, Avg, Min, Max, Count) - A practical look at SvGrid's five built-in aggregations - what they compute, where the math quietly breaks, and how to handle the server-paged case where client totals are meaningless.
• Using SvGrid with TanStack Query in Svelte - Wire TanStack Query's caching and background refetch into SvGrid for a server-driven grid that pages instantly and never shows a blank screen.
• A Svelte Data Grid with SvelteKit and Supabase - Wire SvGrid to a Supabase Postgres backend with server-side pagination, sorting, and filtering - keeping credentials on the server and queries fast with proper indexing.
• SvGrid Cheat Sheet - The One-Page Quick Reference - Dense copy-paste reference for @svgrid/grid - install, column shapes, features, the imperative API, server-side data, custom cells, and theming tokens on one page.
• What Makes a Data Table Accessible? (WCAG) - Semantic markup, WAI-ARIA grid roles, keyboard navigation, and the WCAG criteria that matter most for interactive data tables and grids.
• Client-Side vs Server-Side Data for Tables - The architectural fork that determines your grid's performance ceiling - how to pick the right data mode and wire it correctly in SvGrid.
• Data Grid vs Data Table - What's the Difference? - The terms overlap, but they point at different capability levels. Here is how to tell them apart and pick the right abstraction before you start building.
• Virtual Scrolling Explained - A practical look at how windowed rendering keeps large grids fast, what makes it break, and how to verify it's actually working.
• What Is a Headless Data Grid? - Headless grids separate behavior from rendering - sorting, filtering, grouping, and pagination logic with no markup attached. Here is what that means in practice, why it matters, and when the tradeoff is worth it.
• Documenting SvGrid in Storybook - Set up a living component catalog for your SvGrid configurations - bounded containers, reactive story args, and play functions that drive the API.
• Using SvGrid in Astro with Svelte Islands - Wire SvGrid into an Astro page as a Svelte island - hydration directives, server-fetched props, bounded height for the virtualizer, and when to switch to a server data source instead.
• SvGrid drops into your shadcn-svelte app - A side-by-side look at how little it takes to swap a hand-written shadcn Table for a full SvGrid - same tokens, same dark mode, plus sorting, filtering, and virtualization for free.
• Theming SvGrid with Tailwind CSS v4 - SvGrid's --sg-* tokens and Tailwind v4's CSS custom properties live in the same cascade. Wire them together in one CSS file and dark mode, rebranding, and multi-theme pages all become trivial.
• Using SvGrid with shadcn-svelte - Wire SvGrid's --sg-* CSS tokens to shadcn-svelte's design variables so the grid inherits your app's palette and dark mode automatically - no JavaScript required.
• Theming a Svelte Data Grid with CSS Variables and Dark Mode - How SvGrid's --sg-* CSS custom properties let you remap colors, density, and accent in plain CSS - with a full light/dark/accent switcher wired in Svelte 5.
• A Svelte Data Grid with Drizzle ORM - Wire SvGrid's server-side mode to a Drizzle ORM backend in SvelteKit for type-safe sorting, filtering, and pagination across hundreds of thousands of rows.
• Keyboard Navigation and Accessibility in SvGrid - WAI-ARIA grid semantics, roving tabindex, and live-region announcements are built into SvGrid from the start. Here is what that means in practice and where custom cells require your attention.
• A Svelte Data Grid in a Tauri Desktop App - Wire SvGrid into a Tauri app backed by SQLite - fast first paint from Rust, virtualized rendering for large local datasets, and a keyboard-native grid your desktop users expect.
• Using SvGrid with Flowbite Svelte - Wire SvGrid into a Flowbite Svelte app - map CSS tokens for dark mode, build toolbar controls from Flowbite components, and put Flowbite Buttons inside cell renderers.
• A Live Svelte Data Grid with Firebase Firestore - Wire Firestore onSnapshot to SvGrid in Svelte 5 - reactive listeners, query-driven sort and filter, cursor pagination, and the subtle cleanup detail most implementations get wrong.
• A Reactive Svelte Data Grid with Convex - Convex's server-level reactive queries mean your SvGrid stays current across all clients with no subscription management - here is how to wire it together correctly.
• End-to-End Testing SvGrid with Playwright - How to write durable Playwright tests for sorting, filtering, editing, and keyboard navigation in SvGrid - using ARIA roles so your tests double as accessibility coverage.
• A Svelte Data Grid with Prisma - Wire SvGrid to a Prisma backend in SvelteKit - server-side pagination, sorting, and filtering that scales to millions of rows without a custom query builder.
• A Svelte Data Grid with a Plain REST API - Wire SvGrid to any paginated REST endpoint - serializing sort, filter, and page state into query params, handling debounce, and cancelling stale requests before they land.
• A Svelte Data Grid with PocketBase - Wire SvGrid to PocketBase for server-side paging, sorting, and filtering via getList, plus live row updates through PocketBase realtime subscriptions.
• Using SvGrid with SvelteKit and Server-Side Rendering - SvGrid renders real HTML on the server and hydrates cleanly - no browser guards, no blank first paint, and no special adapter required.
• Unit-Testing SvGrid with Vitest - Three-layer testing strategy for SvGrid - pure accessor logic, headless row model, and rendered component - all with Vitest and no browser required.
• A Svelte Data Grid with GraphQL - Wire SvGrid to a GraphQL API with server-side sort, filter, and pagination - covering offset and cursor paging, variable translation, and the three callbacks that keep everything in sync.
• Using SvGrid with Skeleton UI - Map SvGrid's CSS token system to Skeleton UI's theme variables once, and the grid inherits dark mode, palette swaps, and every future Skeleton theme automatically.
• An End-to-End Typed Svelte Data Grid with tRPC - Wire SvGrid to a tRPC router and get full TypeScript enforcement from the Zod schema on the server down to the column field strings in the browser - no type assertions required.
• A Svelte Data Grid with Laravel and Inertia - Wire SvGrid to a Laravel backend through Inertia - partial reloads handle sorting and pagination without a separate API layer.

AI

• Prompts That Build a Svelte Data Grid (Claude & Cursor) - Concrete prompts for Claude and Cursor that produce working SvGrid code - plus the MCP server setup that stops AI assistants from inventing props that don't exist.
• Build Svelte Grids Faster with AI and the SvGrid MCP Server - The @svgrid/mcp server grounds Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants in real SvGrid API docs so generated grid code compiles the first time.

Enterprise

• What's New in SvGrid Enterprise - Export, Pivot, Import, Print, and AI - A practical look at @svgrid/enterprise - pivot tables, Excel and PDF export, data import, printing, and an AI assistant. Covers when each feature earns its place and what to watch out for in production.
• Export a Svelte Data Grid to Excel, CSV, and PDF - Wire up XLSX, CSV, and PDF export in SvGrid with @svgrid/enterprise - respecting active filters, sort order, and row selection.
• Pivot Tables in Svelte - Summarize Data Without a Spreadsheet - Run a cross-tab pivot directly inside your Svelte app using @svgrid/enterprise createPivotModel - no Excel, no server-side aggregation, no stale exports.
• Scheduling - Automate Exports and Reminders Without a Backend - A schedule is just a timer plus an action you already have. SvGrid's client-side scheduler fires cron and one-off triggers to run exports and toast alerts, no job runner required.

Company

• First Light - Pointing SvGrid at 100,000 Rows - When we first fed SvGrid a hundred thousand rows, we were testing more than performance - we were testing whether building native on Svelte 5 runes was the right call from the start.
• How We Started Building SvGrid - The boundary we drew on day one - between the logic engine and the render layer - is what everything else rests on. Here is how that line was drawn and what it cost to get right.
• Introducing SvGrid - A Native Svelte 5 Data Grid from jQWidgets - SvGrid is a headless-first data grid built specifically for Svelte 5 runes. Here is what it does differently, why the architecture matters, and how to get started in under ten minutes.
• 15 Years of UI Components - The Story Behind jQWidgets and Smart UI - How a team spent 15 years shipping data grids - from jQuery widgets in 2011 to web components to a Svelte 5 native grid - and what actually changed each time.
• The Idea - Svelte 5 Deserves a Data Grid Built for It - Svelte 5 runes rewired how reactivity works. Every data grid we evaluated required a translation layer to keep up. Building one that didn't need that layer was the point.
• Smart UI Wins Gold in the 2025 Visual Studio Magazine Readers' Choice Awards - Smart UI, the web-components suite from the team behind SvGrid, earned Gold in the 2025 Visual Studio Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. Here is what that vote actually tells you about the codebase you are running.
• Why Svelte 5 Changed Everything for Data Grids - Svelte 5 runes introduced signal-based, property-level reactivity. That single shift made a genuinely fast Svelte-native data grid possible in a way it never was before.