# alfajango/jquery-dynatable

A more-fun, semantic, alternative to datatables

Repository: https://github.com/alfajango/jquery-dynatable
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jquery-dynatable
Homepage: http://www.dynatable.com
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-02-25T20:46:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5386, "days_push": 1650, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2751, forks 346 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:17.923321+00:00)

## What it is
jQuery Dynatable is a jQuery plugin for building interactive, sortable, searchable HTML tables from HTML5 or JSON data. It provides a clean, extensible API as a semantic alternative to DataTables.

## Use cases
- render large datasets in an interactive html table
- add sorting and filtering to a table with jquery
- convert  data into a paginated table
- find a semantic alternative to datatables
- make table state shareable via url query parameters
- build searchable client-side tables

## When to choose
- you already use jQuery and need interactive tables
- you want a lightweight, extensible, semantic table plugin
- you need sorting, searching, filtering, and pagination out of the box

## When to avoid
- you are starting a modern framework project without jQuery
- you need actively developed features or recent bug fixes
- you need server-side processing at large scale with heavy support

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, search-engine, data-visualization
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery, tables, datatables-alternative, sorting, pagination, filtering, html5, nodejs

## Member repositories
- alfajango/jquery-dynatable (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:17.923321+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:18:56.175873+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alfajango/jquery-dynatable (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:17.923321+00:00, sha 2b72bd873282)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.