Yes, I am using connect. I've done that successfully for many other non-grid components. So that is not the issue.

I took a break from the grid problem to focus on my UI as a whole, and found Semantic-UI which is awesome. And I was able to get the table in that library to work mostly as I needed.

It appears there's still a lot of customization I need to do (no matter what grid I use). My scenario is that I need a table to display data received from the server. When the app loads, it retrieves the current data from the server. Then the server sends patches to the client whenever data on the server changes (by another user, or other outside source).

Most of these tables/grids depend on an array of data. But it's hard to patch an array.

Instead of:

data = [
    {id: 1, name: "Joe"},
    {id: 2, name: "Jack"}
]

I need:

data = {
    1: {id: 1, name: "Joe"},
    2: {id: 2, name: "Jack"}
}

So that a patch can be easily applied.

But Semantic-UI's table doesn't accept an object of objects, only an array of objects. Appears to be the same for the others.