Proof of concept of a HTML5 grid component with fixed columns

Browser Targets: Chrome 37+, Safari iOS 7+, FireFox 32+, IE9+

In scope:

• fixed columns
• row grouping per column value
• column moving
• column resizing
• column hiding
• live sorting
• virtual scrolling
• grid within a grid (possibility is there using subviews)
• row hierarchy
• inline editing & validation (almost done)
• paging
• multiple selection modes: row, column, block
• fill down/right
• copy/paste blocks
• undo

Goals:

• high performance by leveraging browser-native functionality
• low footprint
• portability
• flexibility
• concurrency support (through use of Promises throughout the API)
• touch support throughout

Getting started:

• clone it
• install nodejs & npm if not done so already
• cd into the project directory
• if not done so yet, install bower and grunt: sudo npm install -g bower && sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
• npm install # install grunt tasks
• bower install # fetch javascript dependencies
• grunt bower # build requirejs config.js based on bower dependencies