App of the Week Winner - 5/28/2021 (ExtJS app port to Retool)

[ChrisS]

And this weeks Retool App of the Week award goes to...

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Brad Mathews ( @bradlymathews ) for his outstanding walkthrough of an app he ported from ExtJS framework over to Retool.

Brad's app is a great example of:

• Handling complex queries and multiple CRUD interfaces
• Enforcing query execution logic via JavaScript
• Performance management and local frontend data filtering

You can find the app post linked below which includes some great architectural insight and script for handling complex query firing logic.

Ported an old ExtJS based internal tool. Retool acquitted itself well

Continuing the discussion from Retool App of the Week!: I think I finally wrapped this app and I am very proud of it. Tried a bunch of different techniques to find the ones that finally worked best - I think I was pushing Retool's limits a bit with this one. It is a port of an internal tracking app I built using ExtJS some years back. If I was doing it newly in Retool it would probably look different but I am pretty used to the UX. It has 4 related datasets, 2 subtables and a subsubtable, (comi…

Thanks so much for sharing Brad and I'll be reaching out to you directly to get you some sweet Retool swag!

Chris Smith
Developer Advocate @ Retool

[bradlymathews]

Wow, thanks! Seeing some glimpses of the work other people are doing I am very honored.

I threw my app out there because I want to get a good culture of sharing going on. That way we can riff on each others ideas and make our projects better. Glimpses are good, but let's show a little more skin, what do you say?