Building a Production-Grade Table Editor with React and XState

Introduction Table editors look simple. Add rows. Edit cells. Resize columns. But once you add undo/redo, reordering, grouping, and consistent UI feedback — the logic becomes chaotic. In this series, we’ll build a production-grade table editor using a state machine approach with XState. What Have you ever used SaaS products that have a great table editing and viewing experience. Let me give you some examples: Clay Notion Google Sheets They are just easy to navigate, put your data and you are done. It just feels natural and provides consistent feedback on every operation we do in these tables. So in this blogpost series we will be looking at how to create your own table editor which provides an experience like these products. Especially we will try to implement features like: Row and column addition and deletion Re-ordering of columns and rows Re-sizing of rows and columns Grouping Rows and columns Table editing experience. Undo - redo operations etc…. Why This series is not about compe