Demo of live changes to a table (such as could be done via websockets)

ChrisDennis

I've put together a demonstration to show DataTables responding to 'external' requests to change the data.

It's available here as a jsfiddle

The requests aren't really external -- they're just generated randomly from within the javascript. But it shows (me) how DataTables could be made to respond to external input via websockets or similar mechanisms.

It creates a table, and then inserts, updates, and deletes rows. And there's colour and gratuitous animations and everything.

This is supposed to be a question, so: What do you think of it?

allan

Looks really good! This is the whole point of DataTables having an API - you can use it for all sorts of situations such as this. For example, I've seen it used with web-socket updating for real-time financial record updating and it looks fantastic.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Allan