LyteNyte Grid: Open Source Frameworks & Platforms

What is LyteNyte Grid?

What it is

LyteNyte Grid is a React data grid distributed as a TypeScript monorepo and published to npm as two packages: @1771technologies/lytenyte-core and @1771technologies/lytenyte-pro. It ships at roughly 40 KB gzipped with no wrappers or runtime dependencies, and it can be used either headless for full customization or with pre-built logic and themes for teams that need to ship quickly. The project is maintained by 1771 Technologies and lives in the React and TypeScript ecosystem, with a declarative, fully type-safe, prop-driven API.

The concrete problem it addresses is engineering cost. The README states plainly that building a feature-rich data grid that stays performant for end users takes a long time, and that time is spent away from the application itself. LyteNyte Grid is positioned as that grid, already built, so teams do not have to write virtualization, editing, grouping, and data-loading logic themselves. It is fully stateless and prop-driven, which means configuration can be driven from URL parameters, server state, or external state without synchronization layers.

Key capabilities

Renders millions of rows and handles up to 10,000 updates per second, according to the README.
Ships 150+ built-in grid features, including server-side data loading and infinite scrolling.
Supports pivoting, tree views, row grouping, filtering, and cell editing.
Offers a choice between a headless table and a pre-built table with themes, rather than forcing one.
Exposes a declarative API that can be extended with custom props and methods on the API and column definitions.
Is 100% type-safe and carries no wrappers or dependencies.
Is designed to let AI statically verify grid code, which the README frames as reducing hidden bugs and token usage.

Who uses it and how

React application teams that need a data table in an existing product and want to configure it from external or server state.
Teams that need Excel-like workflows, indicated by the excel topic alongside filtering, grouping, pagination, and pivoting.
Projects that adopt the core package without a license, accepting a watermark in exchange for evaluating the grid.
Teams that need to start unstyled and layer their own design system on the headless variant, then move to pre-built themes.
Developers building AI-assisted or AI-generated interfaces, where the type-safe declarative API allows static verification.

Getting started

Install through npm: npm install --save @1771technologies/lytenyte-pro for the PRO package, or `npm install

project readme (upstream, from github) — read inline

Drop The Fastest React Data Grid Into Your App In Seconds

Building a feature-rich data grid that remains highly performant for end users takes a long time. Time that could be spent focusing on your application.

We created LyteNyte Grid to solve that. Designed with an obsessive focus on DX, it's ultra-fast, easy to customize, and drastically reduces the engineering effort required for data grids.

Website — Documentation — Demo — Pricing — Blog — Support

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Why Choose LyteNyte Grid?

⚡Up to 7x faster performance than competing grids. At just 40 KB gzipped, it renders millions of rows and handles up to 10,000 updates/sec.

🧰 Get 150+ built-in grid features, including server-side data loading, infinite scrolling, pivoting, tree views, filtering, row grouping, and cell editing.

🎯 Better DX with a declarative API that lets you extend the API and column definitions with your own custom props and methods. 100% type-safe. No wrappers or dependencies.

🎨 No styling tradeoffs by forcing a choice between a headless table and a pre-built table. You can run it headless for ultimate customization or with pre-built logic and themes if you need to ship in a rush.

🔄Driven by your state. It’s fully stateless and prop-driven. Configure it declaratively from URL params, server state, or external state for simpler code and zero sync headaches.

🤖 Turbocharges AI workflows. The grid's declarative and type-safe nature allows AI to statically verify code, preventing hidden bugs and excess token usage caused by wrapping layers and imperative logic found in other grids.

Installation

LyteNyte Grid can be installed via NPM:

PRO:

npm install --save @1771technologies/lytenyte-pro

[!NOTE] You can install and use LyteNyte Grid PRO without a license, but a watermark will be displayed.

Core:

npm install --save @1771technologies/lytenyte-core

Quick Start

Begin with our comprehensive getting started guide.
Explore our flexible pricing options to find the ideal fit for your project.
Follow our step-by-step installation guide to seamlessly integrate LyteNyte Grid into your application.

AI-Enhanced Workflows

LyteNyte Grid AI Skills are structured context files for Claude Code, Windsurf, Cursor, and other AI coding agents. Skills provide agents with accurate, curated context for LyteNyte Grid, allowing them to generate complex grid implementations with greater speed and reliability.

Instead of building the grid manually, developers can describe the desired result and let the agent generate the implementation.

Install LyteNyte Grid AI Skills

npx skills add 1771-Technologies/lytenyte

Once installed, the Skill activates automatically whenever you work on a LyteNyte Grid task. No special prompting is needed. Skills are actively maintained by the 1771 Technologies team and versioned alongside each LyteNyte Grid release.

See our AI Skills Overview guide to learn more.

Features

⚛️ Reactive Architecture

Feature	Core	PRO
Declarative Prop Configuration	✅	✅
Controlled or Uncontrolled State	✅	✅
React Compiler Support	✅	✅
Headless Components	✅	✅

🤖 AI Enhanced Workflows

Feature	Core	PRO
AI Skills	✅	✅

🔌 API Extensions

Feature	Core	PRO
Imperative Method Extensions	✅	✅
Column Extensions	✅	✅

🚀 Virtualization

Feature	Core	PRO
Row Virtualization	✅	✅
Column Virtualization	✅	✅
Scroll Flash Suppression	✅	✅
Initial Viewport Dimensions	✅	✅

Frequently asked questions

Is LyteNyte Grid free to use?

LyteNyte Grid is open source. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does LyteNyte Grid do?

Lightning-fast React data grid for enterprise scale

What is LyteNyte Grid written in?

LyteNyte Grid is primarily written in TypeScript. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/1771-technologies/lytenyte, and it has 1,023 GitHub stars.