Add react-datatable (paid / special-use)

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Adds a [Paid] react-datatable row under Special use case libraries with documentation as the link (no public GitHub repo).

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@anubhavsrivastava — thanks for maintaining this list. Dropped in react-datatable under the paid/special section: it is a source kit (TanStack Table + shadcn-style bits + Tailwind), not a drop-in npm widget, so the only public entrypoint is docs. Happy to tweak category or wording if you want it somewhere else.

I built react-datatable.com after rebuilding datatables 4 times for 4 different products. I felt like most available solutions either

give you a library blackbox that is hard to customize, extend, and truly own
or get you 50% of the way with headless primitives or some UI and then you are left spending weeks integrating more advanced features (virtualization, pagination, infinite loading) and polishing the UX and performance (rerenders)
The idea with react-datatable is the following: It gives you a production-grade implementation that comes with great UI/UX and all the features you might need out of the box. It also ships with server-side adapters that make it easy to move the table operations out of the client. Plus, instead of shipping as closed package you install the source code into your react-app like shadcn/ui.

The benefits:

You save weeks, if not months, of developer time you would need, to get there with headless libraries.
You also retain full control over customisation and future extension, because you can directly modify the source code, without any limitiations.
Bonus: this works really well with coding agents, like cursor, codex, and claude-code because they have full visibility over the implementation.
Curious to hear your thought!

Best
Michael