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Kevin Thomas Van Cott

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Kevin Thomas Van Cott

@KevinVanCott

Sometimes called Kevin Vandy. Software Engineer and OSS maintainer. Creator of material-react-table and mantine-react-table. TanStack maintainer.

Nebraska

Joined November 2012

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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Apr 26, 2024
I'm excited to keep working hard on TanStack Table and make even greater time commitments to it going forward. My TanStack Table documentation rewrite is about 3/4ths of the way done and we'll keep working on making the best lean and mean tools for building powerful data grids.
Tanner Linsley
@tannerlinsley
Apr 26, 2024
💖 I'm sponsoring @KevinVanCott because he GOAT'd on @tan_stack Table!!! github.com/sponsors/Kevin…
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Apr 7, 2025
Soft launching a new TanStack library today. Check out TanStack Pacer! A small utility library for debouncing, throttling, rate limiting, queuing, and task pooling. It's in alpha, but can't wait to see how this might evolve.
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Mar 3, 2025
Hmmm. Anyone know of any good form libraries that can clean up this code? Maybe a new library that is dropping as stable today? 👀👀👀
IroncladDev
@IroncladDev
Aug 8, 2024
React is my passion
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Sep 21, 2024
Over the past couple of months, I gave 3 similar talks about TanStack Query and fetching in React in general. I ended up making a monorepo with the same app built in 10+ different ways in order to show an apples to apples comparison of various ways to fetch data in your app.
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Jul 26, 2025
This repo looks like this now. I have now built the same app 22 times for my workshop where I teach different data loading patterns in React Router, TanStack Router, Next.js, and even a bit of Astro and Sveltekit too. And, of course, how to use TanStack Query with all of them.
Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Sep 21, 2024
Over the past couple of months, I gave 3 similar talks about TanStack Query and fetching in React in general. I ended up making a monorepo with the same app built in 10+ different ways in order to show an apples to apples comparison of various ways to fetch data in your app.
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
May 19, 2023
Ok. @DrizzleOrm has the funniest docs homepage
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Jul 17, 2025
Here's a new visual example of the TanStack Pacer utilities I made for comparison. Debouncing vs Throttling vs Rate Limiting vs Queuing vs Batching
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
May 14, 2025
TanStack DB TanStack Table TanStack Query Is TanStack a database company? What's next? TanStack Select? TanStack Join? TanStack DropTableUsers?
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Jul 18, 2023
I am finally releasing V1 of Mantine React Table today. I kept it in beta longer than I was initially planning, but that ended up giving me time to refactor and offer a headless paradigm that closely resembles TanStack Table itself. More details here: mantine-react-table.com/blog/introduci…
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Mar 3, 2025
Replying to @KevinVanCott
Here was the announcement. TanStack Form V1 is stable!
Tanner Linsley
@tannerlinsley
Mar 3, 2025
After 2+ years, it's finally time to announce @tan_stack Form v1! ✅ Type Safe 🚀 Framework Agnostic 🎭 Headless 🔄 Isomorphic 🛡️ Advanced Validation 📜 Standard Schema ➕ More!
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Feb 17, 2024
I just updated the TanStack Table drag and drop examples to use @dndkit along with a new column ordering guide with recommendations on how to achieve best results when combining TanStack React Table with DnD libraries.
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Mar 25, 2025
Replying to @housecor
All of the TanStack monorepos make use of knip.dev It's like eslint for detecting usnused dependencies or even your own files/modules.
Declutter your JavaScript & TypeScript projects
From knip.dev
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Feb 14, 2024
One of the more common questions I see for TanStack Table is how to make a good Column Pinning UI with sticky columns like below. We just published a new release of TanStack Table, v8.12.0 to make sticky column pinning easier to implement, along with a new guide and example.
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Kevin Thomas Van Cott
@KevinVanCott
Aug 7, 2024
Replying to @housecor
I honestly don't really see how this is much easier to read. I'd almost rather just initialize with a ternary, no matter how ugly some think that is.
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