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My first job at RStudio (now rebranded to Posit) was to integrate the JS library DataTables into Shiny. That was in 2013, almost ten years ago. To be honest, I have never been highly interested in tables, and working on tables was just a random start of my professional career. Since DataTables was quite a complex library and many of its features could be useful outside Shiny, we decided in 2014 to make a standalone package based on the HTML Widgets framework. That’s how the DT package was born. ...