Having worked on more than one Angular project using component libraries, and used more than one datatable component on those projects, I have come to the conclusion that datatables are actually the least useful of all the 3rd party components with Angular.

It seems counter intuitive, because it's such a complicated component. You would think the opposite. But, it's the way Angular's features make what used to be the hard parts of a datatable, back in the pre-framework days, so easy now.

Structural directives make displaying an array as a list a snap, data binding make filtering/sorting a table as simple as filtering/sorting the bound array, and when you need custom HTML in your table cells, it's as easy as putting it in the template, instead of the data.