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This is slick. Does anyone know what JS library (presumably) they are using to display, filter, sort the table?

sebmellen 1y ago
If I were in their position I’d use TanStack Table.
joethei 1y ago
For the grammar: Lezer For the editor: CodeMirror Everything else is custom as we generally don't use existing frameworks and the large amount of baggage they carry. CodeMirror and Lezer we already used before Bases.
- alberth 1y ago
  Any chance the entire table layout, filtering, etc will be open sourced? I can see plenty of SaaS apps, especially indie made, that could benefit from such functionality.
- hu3 1y ago
  Neat! Does it use a library like React? Or perhabs Lit?
  - joethei 1y ago
    Nope, that's not the Obsidian way. We don't use frameworks We include very few dependencies, see: <https://help.obsidian.md/credits#Third+party+acknowledgements https://help.obsidian.md/credits#Third+party+acknowledgement...>
echelon 1y ago
This is beyond slick. I'm finally able to kill Notion (good riddance - I never liked it!), and if it can handle larger tables then I'll stop using Google Suite as well. My last request of the Obsidian team is a better git plugin. Their official built-in sync product is fine, but I'd still like to manage my own versioning so I can use automations. The currently available git plugin is extremely dangerous (!!!) if set up incorrectly. I would consider myself an advanced user of git, and Obsidian's git plugin has on several occasions blown away my history and notes. It has frustrating and opaque behavior for how it consolidates change sets and diffs.
- semi-extrinsic 1y ago
  Can you expand on when the git plugin is dangerous?
  - LordDragonfang 1y ago
    I've never had it wipe anything before[1], but I do have a stretch of 200+ commits in my personal vault where my laptop and desktop were fighting back and forth on the contents of one setting file. One caveat is that the obsidian android app DOES NOT seem to save files to storage until the note unloads, which can break things if you pull in the middle of making changes. [1] Though I have had to fix my termux clone of the vault enough times that I now just nuke it and re-clone instead of bothering with git - but that's more of a "termux likes to break git" issue than anything
    - obsidianbases1 1y ago
      For better/worse, I've noticed save seems to be triggered when moving to a new line. Plenty of times I've unloaded (swiped away the app) only to have a missing last line later when I get on desktop. Building a habit of adding a few trailing newlines seems to have mostly resolved this for me
- Redster 1y ago
  I know this won't work for some and is no replacement for a good git plugin, but have you tried using an Obsidian terminal plugin to manage git and the git repos yourself?
- HSO 1y ago
  Speaking as a superficial git user, can you say why not simply git init on the vault is enough to use it? Why is a plugin necessary?
  - mynegation 1y ago
    Plugin commits and pushes the contents of the notes as they are being updated - from within the Obsidian app.

If I were in their position I’d use TanStack Table.

For the grammar: Lezer For the editor: CodeMirror Everything else is custom as we generally don't use existing frameworks and the large amount of baggage they carry. CodeMirror and Lezer we already used before Bases.

alberth 1y ago
Any chance the entire table layout, filtering, etc will be open sourced? I can see plenty of SaaS apps, especially indie made, that could benefit from such functionality.
hu3 1y ago
Neat! Does it use a library like React? Or perhabs Lit?
- joethei 1y ago
  Nope, that's not the Obsidian way. We don't use frameworks We include very few dependencies, see: <https://help.obsidian.md/credits#Third+party+acknowledgements https://help.obsidian.md/credits#Third+party+acknowledgement...>

echelon 1y ago

This is beyond slick. I'm finally able to kill Notion (good riddance - I never liked it!), and if it can handle larger tables then I'll stop using Google Suite as well. My last request of the Obsidian team is a better git plugin. Their official built-in sync product is fine, but I'd still like to manage my own versioning so I can use automations. The currently available git plugin is extremely dangerous (!!!) if set up incorrectly. I would consider myself an advanced user of git, and Obsidian's git plugin has on several occasions blown away my history and notes. It has frustrating and opaque behavior for how it consolidates change sets and diffs.

semi-extrinsic 1y ago
Can you expand on when the git plugin is dangerous?
- LordDragonfang 1y ago
  I've never had it wipe anything before[1], but I do have a stretch of 200+ commits in my personal vault where my laptop and desktop were fighting back and forth on the contents of one setting file. One caveat is that the obsidian android app DOES NOT seem to save files to storage until the note unloads, which can break things if you pull in the middle of making changes. [1] Though I have had to fix my termux clone of the vault enough times that I now just nuke it and re-clone instead of bothering with git - but that's more of a "termux likes to break git" issue than anything
  - obsidianbases1 1y ago
    For better/worse, I've noticed save seems to be triggered when moving to a new line. Plenty of times I've unloaded (swiped away the app) only to have a missing last line later when I get on desktop. Building a habit of adding a few trailing newlines seems to have mostly resolved this for me
Redster 1y ago
I know this won't work for some and is no replacement for a good git plugin, but have you tried using an Obsidian terminal plugin to manage git and the git repos yourself?
HSO 1y ago
Speaking as a superficial git user, can you say why not simply git init on the vault is enough to use it? Why is a plugin necessary?
- mynegation 1y ago
  Plugin commits and pushes the contents of the notes as they are being updated - from within the Obsidian app.