Select row on click react-table

Question

I am trying to find the best table to use with my react apps, and for now, the react-table offers everything I need (pagination, server-side control, filtering, sorting, footer row).

This being said, I can't seem to be able to select a row. There are no examples that show this.

Some things, that I have tried include trying to set a className on click of the row. But I can't seem to find the calling element in e nor t. Also, I don't like this approach, because it is not how a react app should do things.

<ReactTable
            ...
            getTrProps={(state, rowInfo, column, instance) => {
                return {
                    onClick: (e, t) => {
                        t.srcElement.classList.add('active')
                    },
                    style: {
                    }
                }
            }}
        />

Some possible workaround would be to render checkboxes as a first column, but this is not optimal as it limits the area to click to 'activate' the row. Also, the visual feedback will be less expressive.

Am I missing the elephant in the room? And if not, do you know another library that supports the things that I've described earlier?

Thank you!

EDIT: Another option, this being open source, is to suggest an edit. And maybe this is the proper thing to do.

EDIT 2

Another thing, suggested by Davorin Ruševljan in the comments, but I couldn't make it work was:

onRowClick(e, t, rowInfo) {
    this.setState((oldState) => {
        let data = oldState.data.slice();
        let copy = Object.assign({},  data[rowInfo.index]);

        copy.selected = true;
        copy.FirstName = "selected";
        data[rowInfo.index] = copy;

        return {
            data: data,
        }
    })
}

....

            getTrProps={(state, rowInfo, column) => {
                return {
                    onClick: (e, t) => { this.onRowClick(e, t, rowInfo) },
                    style: {
                        background: rowInfo && rowInfo.row.selected ? 'green' : 'red'
                    }
                }
            }}

This sets the 'FirstName' column to 'selected', but does not set the class to 'green'

Answer 1

I found the solution after a few tries, I hope this can help you. Add the following to your <ReactTable> component:

getTrProps={(state, rowInfo) => {
  if (rowInfo && rowInfo.row) {
    return {
      onClick: (e) => {
        this.setState({
          selected: rowInfo.index
        })
      },
      style: {
        background: rowInfo.index === this.state.selected ? '#00afec' : 'white',
        color: rowInfo.index === this.state.selected ? 'white' : 'black'
      }
    }
  }else{
    return {}
  }
}

In your state don't forget to add a null selected value, like:

state = { selected: null }