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15th Mar 2024

By Allan Jardine -

DataTables 2!

It is with real pleasure that I announce the general availability of DataTables 2. It has been a long time in coming, with aspects of its development starting in 2018, but it is finally here now and I think it is a great step forward for DataTables, with new options, API methods, and plenty of refinements and general improvements.

The table below shows:

Improved layout control through the new layout option
Improved smart search abilities
Easy customisation of the table's data type

Name	Position	Office	Salary
Tiger Nixon	System Architect	Edinburgh	$320,800
Garrett Winters	Accountant	Tokyo	$170,750
Ashton Cox	Junior Technical Author	San Francisco	$86,000
Cedric Kelly	Senior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	$433,060
Airi Satou	Accountant	Tokyo	$162,700
Brielle Williamson	Integration Specialist	New York	$372,000
Herrod Chandler	Sales Assistant	San Francisco	$137,500
Rhona Davidson	Integration Specialist	Tokyo	$327,900
Colleen Hurst	Javascript Developer	San Francisco	$205,500
Sonya Frost	Software Engineer	Edinburgh	$103,600
Jena Gaines	Office Manager	London	$90,560
Quinn Flynn	Support Lead	Edinburgh	$342,000
Charde Marshall	Regional Director	San Francisco	$470,600
Haley Kennedy	Senior Marketing Designer	London	$313,500
Tatyana Fitzpatrick	Regional Director	London	$385,750
Michael Silva	Marketing Designer	London	$198,500
Paul Byrd	Chief Financial Officer (CFO)	New York	$725,000
Gloria Little	Systems Administrator	New York	$237,500
Bradley Greer	Software Engineer	London	$132,000
Dai Rios	Personnel Lead	Edinburgh	$217,500
Jenette Caldwell	Development Lead	New York	$345,000
Yuri Berry	Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)	New York	$675,000
Caesar Vance	Pre-Sales Support	New York	$106,450
Doris Wilder	Sales Assistant	Sydney	$85,600
Angelica Ramos	Chief Executive Officer (CEO)	London	$1,200,000
Gavin Joyce	Developer	Edinburgh	$92,575
Jennifer Chang	Regional Director	Singapore	$357,650
Brenden Wagner	Software Engineer	San Francisco	$206,850
Fiona Green	Chief Operating Officer (COO)	San Francisco	$850,000
Shou Itou	Regional Marketing	Tokyo	$163,000
Michelle House	Integration Specialist	Sydney	$95,400
Suki Burks	Developer	London	$114,500
Prescott Bartlett	Technical Author	London	$145,000
Gavin Cortez	Team Leader	San Francisco	$235,500
Martena Mccray	Post-Sales support	Edinburgh	$324,050
Unity Butler	Marketing Designer	San Francisco	$85,675
Howard Hatfield	Office Manager	San Francisco	$164,500
Hope Fuentes	Secretary	San Francisco	$109,850
Vivian Harrell	Financial Controller	San Francisco	$452,500
Timothy Mooney	Office Manager	London	$136,200
Jackson Bradshaw	Director	New York	$645,750
Olivia Liang	Support Engineer	Singapore	$234,500
Bruno Nash	Software Engineer	London	$163,500
Sakura Yamamoto	Support Engineer	Tokyo	$139,575
Thor Walton	Developer	New York	$98,540
Finn Camacho	Support Engineer	San Francisco	$87,500
Serge Baldwin	Data Coordinator	Singapore	$138,575
Zenaida Frank	Software Engineer	New York	$125,250
Zorita Serrano	Software Engineer	San Francisco	$115,000
Jennifer Acosta	Junior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	$75,650
Cara Stevens	Sales Assistant	New York	$145,600
Hermione Butler	Regional Director	London	$356,250
Lael Greer	Systems Administrator	London	$103,500
Jonas Alexander	Developer	San Francisco	$86,500
Shad Decker	Regional Director	Edinburgh	$183,000
Michael Bruce	Javascript Developer	Singapore	$183,000
Donna Snider	Customer Support	New York	$112,000

Read on for full details and much more!

7th Mar 2023

By Allan Jardine -

Experiment: Import Maps

With ES modules gaining traction throughout the entire Javascript ecosystem, it is natural to want to use them directly in the browser. We can do that through the type="module" attribute for a script, but the browser needs to be able to resolve import names into Javascript files that can be loaded and executed. The importmap script type is the solution to that problem.

For DataTables, we could create a really simple import map like this (note that DataTables has a dependency on jQuery, hence we need to add a resolver for it as well, even if we don't actually write any jQuery code here):

<script type="importmap">
{
    "imports": {
        "jquery": "https://esm.sh/jquery@3.6.3",
        "datatables.net": "https://cdn.datatables.net/1.13.3/js/jquery.dataTables.min.mjs"
    }
}
</script>

Now that the browser has that mapping available, we can import and use DataTables as normal:

<script type="module">
import DataTable from 'datatables.net';

window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',function () {
    new DataTable('#example');
});
</script>

You can see that script and loading here.

The goal in this post is to explore how we might be able to make DataTables easily usable via import maps with DataTables, assessing advantages and limitations of this approach.

28th Feb 2023

By Allan Jardine -

Loaders for plug-ins

Plug-ins are a very important part of the DataTables eco-system. They expand DataTables' capabilities, wrap common actions into simple functions and provide a way for code to be shared in the community. We store plug-ins developed by ourselves and also those submitted from the community in our plug-ins repo and document them on this site. But to date, there hasn't been much consistency in how the plug-ins are written. With the release of DataTables 1.13.3 today, and the plug-ins repo alongside it, that has now changed.

All plug-ins now: