This seems an amazing library, but nowhere is clearly explained exactly how you are supposed to update the data in the table, how to access the underlying data structures, and much more. As an example, I'm trying to display the table inside an ipywidget box, and I don't know if it's possible and which function should I use. A practical example of how to construct DataModel class would be very useful too.
Lastly I am using get_state() and setData() to get the data from the table w and to change em, is there any easier way to get the data from the table if using pandas DataFrames like for example a w.to_dataframe() method?

EDIT: I see that using w.datamodel._data i can access the underlying dataframe, but if I change it the table widget doesn't update,is there a way to the refresh the view programmatically?

Is there a working example?

Thanks for this very good component
could be helpful to add an example of read-only grid.

Here is a skeleton:

query = ""  # ...
engine = None #...
description = pd.read_sql_query(query, engine) # add some more context
class DataFrameModel_noedit(rt.datamodel.pandas.DataFrameDataModel):
    def editable(self, x, y):
        return False
    
w1 = rt.RegularTableWidget()
w1.datamodel = DataFrameModel_noedit(description)
w1

@JHawk has put together a few of what can be described as "extensions". Since I reimplement many of them here, we should leverage the fact that they're now exported

Row Stripes - https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table/blob/master/examples/row_stripes.md
Row, Column, and Area Mouse selection - https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table/blob/master/examples/row_column_area_selection.md
Row Mouse Selection - https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table/blob/master/examples/row_mouse_selection.md
Column Mouse Selection - https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table/blob/master/examples/column_mouse_selection.md
Area Selection - https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table/blob/master/examples/area_mouse_selection.md

timkpaine/ipydagred3#106

finos/regular-table#120

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@texodus @neilslinger

Hi folks! Congrats on the release!

I'd ❤️ to package this for conda-forge, and am noticing a few irregular things in the metadata/build:

• ensure_python says (('2.7', '>=3.7')) but the trove classifiers claim 3.6
  • which is right? or is *.7 only required for the build?
    • proposal: use python_requires which most pips will actually honor
• the source tarballs doesn't include the js/lib
  • yeah, i know it says "source" on the tin, but i don't think it's generally expected that a pip install needs node (much less yarn) at install time, when error messages can get very buried
    • proposal: include the built js in the sdist

Happy to PR some of these things!

jupyterlab/jupyterlab#14590

Thanks again for this extension!

Another thing I noticed while looking into #23: once enough heavy labextensions are loaded in lab2, the build can start failing because webpack runs out of RAM/open file handles.

Changing the exports when registering the extension to be lazy loading with await import allows the downloading of the widget (and dependencies) to be deferred until the widget is actually requested, and not block the moon animation.

In this case, it knocks 7mb off the main bundle in development (already 30mb), while similarly taking 600kb off the production build (4.5mb)

diff --git a/js/src/plugin.ts b/js/src/plugin.ts
index ca5e534..938fe5b 100644
--- a/js/src/plugin.ts
+++ b/js/src/plugin.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import {
   IJupyterWidgetRegistry,
 } from "@jupyter-widgets/base";
 
-import * as widgetExports from "./widget";
 
 import {
   MODULE_VERSION,
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ export default examplePlugin;
  */
 function activateWidgetExtension(app: Application<Widget>, registry: IJupyterWidgetRegistry): void {
   registry.registerWidget({
-    exports: widgetExports,
+    exports: async () => await import(/* webpackChunkName: "ipyregulartable" */ "./widget"),
     name: "ipyregulartable",
     version: MODULE_VERSION,
   });
diff --git a/js/tsconfig.json b/js/tsconfig.json
index 71bc63b..03397b3 100644
--- a/js/tsconfig.json
+++ b/js/tsconfig.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     "declaration": true,
     "esModuleInterop":true,
     "lib": ["es2015", "dom"],
-    "module": "commonjs",
+    "module": "esnext",
     "moduleResolution": "node",
     "noUnusedLocals": true,
     "outDir": "./lib",
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@
     "sourceMap": true,
     "strict": true,
     "strictPropertyInitialization": false,
-    "target": "ES6",
+    "target": "es2015",
     "types": ["jest", "node"]
   },
   "include": [
     "src/**/*.ts",
     "src/**/*.tsx",
   ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}

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