diff --git a/allianceauth/framework/datatables.py b/allianceauth/framework/datatables.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f80e88f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/allianceauth/framework/datatables.py
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+import re
+
+from django.db.models import Model, Q
+from django.http import HttpRequest, JsonResponse
+from django.template import Context, Template
+from django.template.loader import render_to_string
+from django.views import View
+
+from allianceauth.services.hooks import get_extension_logger
+
+
+logger = get_extension_logger(__name__)
+
+class DataTablesView(View):
+    """
+    Basic DataTables server side table rendering
+    """
+    model: Model = None
+    templates: list[str] = []
+    columns: list[tuple] = []
+
+    def get_model_qs(self, request: HttpRequest):
+        return self.model.objects
+
+    def get_param(self, request: HttpRequest, key: str, cast=str, default=""):
+        return cast(request.GET.get(key, default))
+
+    def filter_qs(self, search_string: str):
+        # Global Search
+        filter_q = Q()
+        if len(search_string) > 0:
+            val = search_string
+            for x in self.columns:
+                if x[0]:
+                    # Apply search to all Columns
+                    filter_q |= Q(**{f'{x[1]}__icontains': val})
+        return filter_q
+
+    def filter_col_qs(self, get: dict):
+        # Row Search
+        # TODO check if we have a regex search or not
+        # TODO check if searchable or not
+        col_id_regex = r"columns\[(?P<id>[0-9]{1,})\]\[search\]\[value\]"
+        regex = re.compile(col_id_regex)
+        filter_q = Q()
+        for c in get:
+            _r = regex.findall(c)
+            if _r:
+                _c = self.columns[int(_r[0])]
+                if _c[0]:
+                    if len(get[c]):
+                        filter_q |= Q(**{f'{_c[1]}__iregex': get[c]})
+        return filter_q
+
+    def order_str(self, order_col, order_dir):
+        order = ""
+        _o = self.columns[order_col]
+        if _o[0]:
+            if order_dir == 'desc':
+                order = '-' + _o[1]
+            else:
+                order = _o[1]
+        return order
+
+    def render_template(self, request: HttpRequest, template: str, ctx: dict):
+        if "{{" in template:
+            _template = Template(template)
+            return _template.render(Context(ctx))
+        else:
+            return render_to_string(
+                template,
+                ctx,
+                request
+            )
+
+    def get(self, request: HttpRequest, *args, **kwargs):
+
+        # Get all our Params out of GET
+        length = self.get_param(request, "length", int)
+        start = self.get_param(request, "start", int)
+        search_string = self.get_param(request, "search[value]")
+        order_col = self.get_param(request, "order[0][column]", int, 0)
+        order_dir = self.get_param(request, "order[0][dir]")
+        draw = self.get_param(request, "draw", int)
+
+        limit = start + length
+
+        # Searches
+        filter_q = Q() | self.filter_qs(search_string) | self.filter_col_qs(request.GET)
+
+        # Build response rows
+        items = []
+        qs = self.get_model_qs(request).filter(filter_q).order_by()
+
+        # Apply ordering
+        order = self.order_str(order_col, order_dir)
+        if order != "":
+            qs = qs.order_by(order)
+
+        # build output
+        for row in qs[start:limit]:
+            ctx = {"row": row}
+            row = []
+            for t in self.templates:
+                row.append(self.render_template(request, t, ctx))
+            items.append(row)
+
+        # Build our output dict
+        datatables_data = {}
+        datatables_data['draw'] = draw
+        datatables_data['recordsTotal'] = self.get_model_qs(request).all().count()
+        datatables_data['recordsFiltered'] = qs.count()
+        datatables_data['data'] = items
+
+        return JsonResponse(datatables_data)
diff --git a/docs/development/custom/framework/datatables.md b/docs/development/custom/framework/datatables.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e1214b51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/development/custom/framework/datatables.md
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+# DataTables Server Side Rendering
+
+The `allianceauth.framework.datatables.DataTablesView` module provides a simple class based view to
+implement simple server side filtering ordering and searching of DataTables.
+
+This is intended to make the life of our community apps developer a little
+easier, so they don't have to reinvent the wheel.
+
+## Usage
+
+To use this view is as easy as defining your stub templates, and fields and adding the view to the `urls.py`
+
+Given the `EveCharacter` Model as our model of choice we would define our stubs like so
+
+## Add our Templates
+
+### template/appname/stubs/icon.html
+
+```html
+{% load evelinks %}
+{% character_portrait_url row 32 %}
+```
+
+### template/appname/stubs/name.html
+
+```html
+{{ row.character_name }} <span class="text-small">({{row.character_ownership.user.username}})</span>
+```
+
+### template/appname/stubs/corp.html
+
+```html
+{{ row.corporation_name }}
+```
+
+### template/appname/list.html
+
+```html
+{% extends "allianceauth/base-bs5.html" %}
+{% load i18n %}
+{% block page_title %}
+    {% translate "App Name" %}
+{% endblock page_title %}
+{% block content %}
+    <table class="table table-striped w-100" id="table">
+        <!-- Normal Header Rows -->
+        <thead>
+            <tr>
+                <th></th>
+                <th>{% translate "Name" %}</th>
+                <th>{% translate "Corporation" %}</th>
+                <th>{% translate "Alliance" %}</th>
+            </tr>
+        </thead>
+        <!-- Put the footer in the header so it doesn't trigger the sorting on searching -->
+        <!-- only footers with text will get given an input -->
+        <!-- This is just an option, you do it however you like -->
+        <tfoot style="display: table-header-group;">
+            <tr>
+                <th></th>
+                <th>{% translate "Name" %}</th>
+                <th>{% translate "Corporation" %}</th>
+                <th>{% translate "Alliance" %}</th>
+            </tr>
+        </tfoot>
+        <!-- Empty tbody -->
+        <tbody>
+        </tbody>
+    </table>
+{% endblock content %}
+{% block extra_css %}
+    {% include 'bundles/datatables-css-bs5.html' %}
+{% endblock %}
+{% block extra_javascript %}
+    {% include 'bundles/datatables-js-bs5.html' %}
+    <script>
+        $(document).ready(function() {
+            $('#table').DataTable({
+                serverSide: true,
+                ajax: '/appname/tables/data_table',
+                // This is for the column searching
+                initComplete: function () {
+                    this.api()
+                    .columns()
+                    .every(function () {
+                        let column = this;
+                        let title = column.footer().textContent;
+                        if (title != ""){
+                            // Create input element
+                            let input = document.createElement('input');
+                            input.classList.add("w-100")
+                            input.placeholder = title;
+                            column.footer().replaceChildren(input);
+
+                            // Event listener for user input
+                            input.addEventListener('keyup', () => {
+                                if (column.search() !== this.value) {
+                                    column.search(input.value).draw();
+                                }
+                            });
+                        }
+                    });
+                },
+                columnDefs: [
+                    { "searchable": false, "targets": [0] },
+                    { "sortable": false, "targets": [0] },
+                ],
+                order: [
+                    [1, "asc"]
+                ],
+                pageLength: 10,
+                responsive : true
+            });
+        });
+    </script>
+{% endblock extra_javascript %}
+
+```
+
+## Add our Views
+
+Then we can setup out view in our `appname/views.py` file.
+
+```python
+from django.shortcuts import render
+# Alliance Auth
+from allianceauth.framework.datatables import DataTablesView
+from allianceauth.eveonline.models import EveCharacter
+
+## Datatables server side view
+class EveCharacterTable(DataTablesView):
+    model = EveCharacter
+    # Templates can be a html file or template language directly in the list below
+    templates = [
+        "appname/stubs/icon.html",
+        "appname/stubs/name.html",
+        "appname/stubs/corp.html",
+        "{{ row.alliance_name }} {{ row.alliance_id }}"
+    ]
+
+    # Define the columns for filtering and ordering
+    columns = [
+        # (can_sort: bool, "field_for_queries_or_sort")
+        (False, ""),
+        (True, "character_name"),
+        (True, "corporation_name"),
+        (True, "alliance_name"),
+    ]
+
+    # if you need to do some prefetch or pre-filtering you can overide this function
+    def get_model_qs(self, request: HttpRequest):
+        qs = self.model.objects
+        if not request.user.is_superuser:
+            # eg only show unlinked characters to non-superusers
+            # just an example
+            # filtering here will prevent people searching things that may not be visible to them
+            qs = qs.filter(character_ownership__isnull=True)
+        # maybe some character ownership select related for performance?
+        return qs.select_related("character_ownership", "character_ownership__user")
+
+## Main Page View
+def show_table(request):
+    return render("appname/list.html")
+```
+
+## Add our Urls
+
+### appname/urls.py
+
+```python
+from django.urls import path
+
+from . import views
+
+app_name = 'appname'
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    path("list/", views.EveCharacterTable.as_view(), name='eve_character_table'),
+    path("tables/data_table", views.show_table, name='table')
+]
+```
+
+and you are done.