A vacuum never stays empty for long. We said good riddance to a CMS and built our own tools instead.
We rebuilt handsontable.com on Astro and Cloudflare with no CMS: what we skipped, what we built instead, and two internal tools that came out of it.
Notes on Engineering
Grok is obsessed with our docs. Just not the parts we built for it.
A browser fleet from an xAI netblock crawled our docs overnight and found the AI chat. Why the rate limiter never fired, and why we deflected, not blocked.
One million rows later: how Handsontable fixed its performance
A benchmark said we ran out of memory at 500,000 rows. Three weeks and 31 pull requests later, one million rows render with the lowest heap in the test.
How We Replaced StackBlitz and CodeSandbox With Our Own Demo Runner
Why we built demos.handsontable.com, how a two-tier runtime works behind a single adapter, and everything that broke along the way.
From 342,000 Lines of JavaScript to TypeScript: How We Migrated Handsontable’s Library
How we moved Handsontable’s 342,000-line codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript after years of postponing it, without changing a single end-to-end test.
From Components to Tables: Designing a Data Table Component in Your Design System
A design-led guide to building scalable table components.
Incident Report: Handsontable 14.6-15.0 Clipboard Disruption in Chrome 133+
Following the Chrome 133 clipboard operations have stopped functioning.
3 things we like about TypeScript
TypeScript’s type system, superset relation to JavaScript, and growing popularity are set to make TypeScript a Handsontable’s darling.
Modularizing to improve the developer experience
Why Handsontable 8.3.0 moved to a modular package, what modules are in JavaScript, and how importing only what you need shrinks your bundle.
Handsontable XSS security flaw – what we’ve done to protect your data
We’ve updated Handsontable to fix the security issues recently found in the audit carried out by Securitum.
Make every data point count. Turn millions of them into actionable wisdom.
Let’s make it easier.
Smoother. Faster. All Handsontable.