Hi Jordan,
Greetings from syncfusion support
If you handling Observable data in the Grid, you can perform the sorting and filtering at backend only. By using custom data binding you can bind data from an API call by providing your own custom queries(as required by your API) and handle all the Grid actions(Sort, Page, Filter, etc. ) with it. The Grid’s custom binding approach is explained below,
For using custom binding, you need to bind the response data(Grid data) returned from your API as an object of result(JSON data source) and count(Total data count) properties and set it to the Grid’s dataSource property. On setting the data source in this format, the ‘dataStateChange’ event will be triggered with corresponding query for every Grid action performed like Paging, Sorting and Filtering.., and the ‘dataSourceChanged’ event will be triggered while performing CRUD action in Grid. So using this you can send the queries in your required format to your API, process and return the result and then assign the returned result to the Grid’s dataSource property as an object of result and count properties.
More details on custom binding can be checked in the below help documentation link,
Note: The ‘dataStateChange’ event will not be triggered on Grid initial render. So for this case you need to return the data in the above mentioned format on initialization and assign it to the Grid’s dataSource property.
Please get back to us if you require any further assistance.
Regards,
Rajapandi R
