How to do default sorting in react-table

The other answer given was for react-table that didn’t use react hooks (< v7). In order to sort a column (or columns) when the table is built, you just have to set the sortBy array on the initialState in the useTable hook.

const {
    getTableProps,
    getTableBodyProps,
    ...
} = useTable(
    {
        columns,
        ....,
        initialState: {
            sortBy: [
                {
                    id: 'columnId',
                    desc: false
                }
            ]
        }
    }