Company
Date Published
Author
Garrett Berg
Word count
373
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The redesigned left panel of the app editor introduces enhanced navigation features with tabs for Explorer and State, aiming to streamline the management and modification of app components and code. The Explorer tab provides a nested view of all containers and components, allowing users to easily select, rename, or delete items while also facilitating the handling of hidden components and multiview containers. It includes a Code section for managing queries, transformers, and temporary states, with an automatically expanding bottom panel for editing. Meanwhile, the State tab offers insights into the current state of the app's code, components, and globals, with temporary state creation now relocated to the Code section. These updates are available to all cloud customers and will soon be accessible to Retool self-hosted users, setting the groundwork for future enhancements to the app editing experience, such as support for multiscreen apps and expanded app shell functionality.