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There are quite a few open source grids out there already. What features are you planning and how are you going to set this apart from the other grids. For instance, my favorite grid is dgrid [1]. Go to their main site and go to the features [2] (scrolling down just a bit there will give you a comparison table to other grids) and let us know if you plan on implementing any of those (especially i18n) or if you're going to have any differentiating features.

[1] -- https://github.com/sitepen/dgrid

[2] -- http://dojofoundation.org/packages/dgrid/#features

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While dojo once held a special place in my heart, it's not what it used to be and I think a lot of people have now moved away from it. I think the dojo dependency will be seen as a drawback by many.

Personally I spent ages waiting for WaveMaker to move to 1.7 and start using dgrid. Before I gave up on WaveMaker and dojo toolkit in favour of other technologies.

What do you use instead of dojo now?

We took a strategic decision to go strictly ExtJS, but so far I can only say we use mostly ExtJS. I really like it. Most of our clients are big enterprise and all the stuff we do is very data heavy (analytics etc.), so we're happy to pay the licence fees just to see them stick around and support it for a few more years.

The README.md file and linked blog posts have more info on the topic (e.g., goals and roadmap of the project). Sensei Grid will always be simple and there won't any fancy or extra features than the bare essentials for a data grid. Additional functionality will be provided through plugins or implemented by users.

After first glance it seems that Dgrid requires dojo framework which I have no interest to depend on and also provides too much functionality for us. Datazenit needs something simple, stable and extensible. Sensei Grid will definitely have just a tiny fraction of Dgrid features. If you need something fully featured and complex, then Sensei Grid is not for you and you should stick with Dgrid or any other alternative.

>>Sensei Grid will always be simple and there won't any fancy or extra features than the bare essentials for a data grid.

Nice. I wish more developers took this approach. I've lost count of how many times I needed some specific functionality (that was advanced/complex enough to make me not want to write it on my own) and ended up using a gigantic library that came with a gazillion other features that I never used.

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