👋 Help Needed with Running and Contributing to TanStack Table (React)

[Syed-Bilal-Haider-Engineer]

Hi everyone,

I’m currently starting my journey into open-source contributions. I cloned the TanStack Table project and installed all dependencies, but I’m facing a few issues.

I need some guidance on the following:

I’m not able to find which port the project runs on or how to start the local dev environment properly. How can I run and preview the project?
What is the recommended way to set up and debug a large monorepo like this?
Since TanStack Table supports multiple frameworks (Vue, Angular, etc.), how can I focus specifically on the React implementation?
What is the best way to start contributing to the React side of this project in OSS?

Any guidance or direction would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance 🙌

[yudin-s]

This repo is a monorepo, so there is not really one single “the app runs on port X” entry point.

At the root, install with pnpm:

pnpm install

The root dev script is mainly for watching/building packages. If you want to preview React Table in a browser, run one of the React examples directly. For example:

pnpm -C examples/react/pagination dev

or pick another example under examples/react/*, such as with-tanstack-query, sorting, filters, etc. Those examples are Vite apps, so Vite will print the local URL/port when it starts.

For focusing on the React implementation, the main places to read are:

packages/table-core
packages/react-table
examples/react/*

Most React behavior is a thin adapter over table-core, so when debugging a bug it is worth checking whether the issue belongs to core logic or only the React wrapper.

A good first contribution path is: reproduce something in a small examples/react/... app, add/fix the core or React behavior, then run the targeted checks before opening a PR. Starting from examples is much easier than trying to understand the whole monorepo at once.