Table State

This skill builds on @tanstack/table-core#core and getting-started. Octane has a render/commit split: options are visible to same-render reads, while controlled state is published only from an accepted layout commit.

State Mental Model

Keep state internal unless another subsystem must read, persist, or drive it. With no initialState, atoms, state, or on[State]Change, the table owns every registered state slice.

• table.baseAtoms are internal writable atoms initialized from resolved initial state.
• table.atoms are readonly derived atoms for the active owner of each registered slice.
• table.store is the readonly flat store assembled from those atoms.
• table.state contains only the result of the second useTable selector.

Only registered features contribute state and types. If pagination is absent, add rowPaginationFeature; do not cast around the missing API.

Setup

function PageStatus() @{
  const table = useTable(
    { features, columns, data },
    (state) => ({ pagination: state.pagination }),
  )

  <output>Page {String(table.state.pagination.pageIndex + 1)}</output>
}

The selector shallow-gates owner rerenders and determines the shape of table.state. Omitting it selects all registered state.

Core Patterns

Fine-grained subscription islands

<table.Subscribe source={table.atoms.rowSelection}>
  {(selection) => <output>{String(Object.keys(selection).length)}</output>}
</table.Subscribe>

Render every Subscribe call site as a component. Each mounted island gets an independent hook scope and still receives the post-commit update when the owner drops its matching redundant notification.

External atom ownership

import { useCreateAtom } from '@tanstack/octane-store'

function Grid() @{
  const pagination = useCreateAtom({ pageIndex: 0, pageSize: 20 })
  const table = useTable({ features, columns, data, atoms: { pagination } })
  <button => table.nextPage()}>Next</button>
}

External atoms are direct synchronous owners. They take precedence over options.state, and table API writes reach them.

Controlled slice ownership

const [pagination, setPagination] = useState({ pageIndex: 0, pageSize: 20 })
const table = useTable({
  features,
  columns,
  data,
  state: { pagination },
  onPaginationChange: setPagination,
})

Staged options and callbacks are available during the same render. Controlled state publication waits for the accepted layout commit, so suspended or abandoned work cannot notify subscribers with speculative state.

Choose State Ownership

Use one owner per slice:

• Prefer internal state and feature APIs when state is local to the table.
• Use initialState for starting/reset values; changing it later does not reset current state.
• Prefer a stable @tanstack/octane-store atom in atoms when state must be shared. Do not pair it with on[State]Change.
• Use state.<slice> plus its matching callback for a controlled slice. Feed the next value back and handle value-or-updater semantics.

Use feature methods such as setSorting, nextPage, toggleVisibility, and toggleSelected for writes. The v8 global onStateChange option is gone.

Common Mistakes

HIGH Reading snapshots as subscriptions

Wrong:

const page = table.store.state.pagination.pageIndex

Correct:

const page = table.state.pagination.pageIndex

Store and atom .get() reads are current snapshots. Selected table.state or a rendered table.Subscribe connects an Octane render.

Source: packages/octane-table/src/useTable.tsrx

HIGH Calling Subscribe as a normal function

Wrong:

{table.Subscribe({ source: table.atoms.rowSelection, children: renderCount })}

Correct:

<table.Subscribe source={table.atoms.rowSelection}>{renderCount}</table.Subscribe>

Direct invocation shares the owner's compiler slots instead of creating an independent component and hook scope.

Source: packages/octane-table/src/Subscribe.tsrx

HIGH Controlling only the callback

Wrong:

useTable({ features, columns, data, onPaginationChange: setPagination })

Correct:

useTable({
  features,
  columns,
  data,
  state: { pagination },
  onPaginationChange: setPagination,
})

The callback must write into the value supplied for that controlled slice.

Source: docs/framework/octane/guide/table-state.md

API Discovery

Inspect node_modules/@tanstack/octane-table/dist/useTable.d.ts, Subscribe.d.ts, and types.d.ts. Use @tanstack/octane-store, not another framework's Store hooks.