Every app requires a quiet architectural choice: filter data on the frontend or on the backend?
Frontend filtering is quick to set up. Load the entire data into the page, add a search box, and filter the results in the browser.
For a few hundred rows, it works. Once you're dealing with tens of thousands of rows, two things break:
1. Performance suffers because the browser has to download, sort, and filter the entire dataset before it can show the user the data they actually need.
2. And security suffers because the rows you filtered out are still in the response: admin-only fields, other users' data, anything you meant to hide.
Backend filtering solves that, but it usually comes with more setup.
Table Views close that gap. Set up filters, sorting, and access rules in 3 clicks:
🔐 Access control built into the view
🔍 Backend search powered by your page inputs
🔗 Filtering and sorting on linked tables, without writing joins
🎛️ One view that can handle search, sorting, pagination, and personalized lists
Try it out and let us know what you think 👇