anyone ever used DataTables JS (https://datatables.net/) in a custom suitelet by chance? Looking for maybe some best practices if you have for doing some filtering on a table.

I have.. recently actually. What sort of filtering are you looking to do? Coz datatable does most of the heavylifting for you

I wound up going to tabulator because i need to do some editing

Never heard of tabulator before. I actually like it more than datatables. Thank you for this!!

not a problem. I hadn't either until the other day and I agree, it seems just as good if not better than datatables.