Migrating from jqxGrid (jQWidgets)

jqxGrid and SvGrid come from the same team. jqxGrid is the mature, multi-framework grid (jQuery core with Angular, React, and Vue integrations); SvGrid is the Svelte-5-native member of the family. If your team is consolidating on Svelte 5, this guide maps a jqxGrid setup onto SvGrid - and the concepts will feel familiar because the engineering lineage is shared.

Estimated effort: 2-4 hours per grid. Most of the work is moving from the imperative jQuery source / API to reactive $state.

Vocabulary cheat sheet

Before / after

The example at the end of this page runs against these rows:

<script lang="ts">
  import { SvGrid, type GridColumns } from '@svgrid/grid'

  type Person = {
    id: number
    name: string
    department: string
    city: string
    age: number
    salary: number
  }

  const people: Person[] = [
    { id: 1, name: 'Ada Lovelace',   department: 'Engineering', city: 'London',   age: 36, salary: 142000 },
    { id: 2, name: 'Grace Hopper',   department: 'Engineering', city: 'New York', age: 45, salary: 168000 },
    { id: 3, name: 'Linus Torvalds', department: 'Platform',    city: 'Portland', age: 54, salary: 155000 },
    { id: 4, name: 'Radia Perlman',  department: 'Networking',  city: 'Seattle',  age: 49, salary: 161000 },
    { id: 5, name: 'Barbara Liskov', department: 'Platform',    city: 'Boston',   age: 52, salary: 172000 },
  ]

  let rows = $state<Person[]>(people)

  const columns: GridColumns<Person> = [
    { field: 'name',       header: 'Name',       width: 200, editorType: 'text' },
    { field: 'department', header: 'Department', width: 150, editorType: 'text' },
    { field: 'city',       header: 'City',       width: 140, editorType: 'text' },
    { field: 'age',        header: 'Age',        width: 90,  editorType: 'number' },
    { field: 'salary',     header: 'Salary',     width: 130, editorType: 'number', format: { type: 'currency', currency: 'USD' } },
  ]
</script>

- const source = { localdata: rows, datatype: 'array' }
- const adapter = new $.jqx.dataAdapter(source)
- $('#grid').jqxGrid({
-   source: adapter, sortable: true, filterable: true, pageable: true, editable: true,
-   columns: [
-     { text: 'Name',   datafield: 'name' },
-     { text: 'Amount', datafield: 'amount', cellsformat: 'c2' },
-   ],
- })

+ <script lang="ts">
+   import {
+     SvGrid, tableFeatures, rowSortingFeature, columnFilteringFeature,
+     type ColumnDef,
+   } from '@svgrid/grid'
+   const features = tableFeatures({ rowSortingFeature, columnFilteringFeature })
+   const columns: ColumnDef<typeof features, Row>[] = [
+     { field: 'name',   header: 'Name' },
+     { field: 'amount', header: 'Amount', format: { type: 'currency', currency: 'USD' } },
+   ]
+ </script>
+
+ <SvGrid data={rows} columns={columns} features={features} showPagination enableInlineEditing />

What changes

• jQuery source / dataAdapter → reactive $state. No updatebounddata(); reassign the array.
• cellsrenderer → snippet cells via renderSnippet.
• jQWidgets theme → --sg-* tokens (or your Tailwind theme).

A note on family

Moving to SvGrid keeps you with the same team's Svelte-5 grid rather than switching vendors. The Enterprise tier and support come from the same people behind jqxGrid. If your app is still on jQuery / Angular / React / Vue, jqxGrid remains the right tool; reach for SvGrid when the codebase is Svelte 5.

Frequently asked questions

Is SvGrid made by the same team as jqxGrid?

Yes. SvGrid is built by jQWidgets - the same team behind jqxGrid - specifically for Svelte 5, rebuilt around runes and snippets with an MIT community core.

How do jqxGrid columns map to SvGrid?

text becomes header, datafield becomes field, cellsrenderer becomes a renderSnippet cell, and cellsformat maps onto the format config. Sorting / filtering / grouping move to registered features.

Should I migrate my jQuery jqxGrid app to SvGrid?

Only if you are moving that app to Svelte 5. If it stays on jQuery / Angular / React / Vue, jqxGrid is the better fit. SvGrid is the native choice once the stack is Svelte.

What you end up with

Editing plus range selection and a totals row - the jqxGrid working set.

<SvGrid data={rows} {columns} editable enableCellSelection summary sortable />

See also

• SvGrid vs jqxGrid - the side-by-side comparison
• About SvGrid - built by jQWidgets
• Getting started - a working grid in ~15 lines