There was, a simple, elegant, easy to use and modular framework called JQuery, and it had plenty of plugins for sortable tables.

Unfortunately, we're all too clever for that nowadays, so you'll probably have to download and compile half a terabyte of Rust from a proprietary package manager just to get something that only works in the nightly build of Chrome.

Hey, this is kind of unrelated, but the other day you mentioned "Blueprints for a Sparkling Tomorrow". May I ask what brought that to your mind, since the book was published years ago?

DataTables does most of it minus the modals and pop-overs