I've faced this need several times over the years:
So, we've got our dashboard, and we need to show customer/user/whatever data in a table so we can search, sort, filter, all that good stuff...
Sound familiar? Well, there are a few ways we could approach this. To start with, we could put it all together by hand. Creating the table structure and binding each individual row from a data source. But that's loads of work! What we need is some kind of helper or plugin to make our lives easier. Something that will turn our ordinary table into a powerhouse of searchable goodness.