If you've worked on more than one enterprise Angular application, you've probably seen this pattern: a CustomerTableComponent, an OrdersTableComponent, an InvoicesTableComponent, and three or four more that all look suspiciously similar. Each one sorts a little differently. Each one paginates a little differently. Each one was copy-pasted from the last one and adjusted "just enough" to ship.
None of that is a UI problem. It's an architecture problem — and it's worth treating it as one.
This is the complete version of that argument: why copy-paste tables become expensive, how to architect a generic, configurable Data Table around column definitions and content projection, a full working example you can adapt directly, a migration path for existing codebases, and answers to the questions that usually come up once a team tries this in practice.
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Introduction
