I'm an engineer on Retool's performance team. We have been working on a refactor of some of the editor's grid layout code for performance. We find that many actions, such as dragging widgets around, can be up to 50% faster in the new architecture, so this should make the editor feel much more responsive!
We are now rolling this out into beta. In the editor at the bottom of the screen, you should see a switch for "WidgetGrid"
If you encounter any problems compared to the existing system (and this really is a beta--so you might!), you should be able to turn it off with the same switch--please provide feedback on any issues you discover.
It slows down the initial load of page changes from what I can tell. I might be wrong but I switched it off as heavy pages felt significantly slower to load.
Was pulling out my hair this week when our commenting system went visibly blank, but all of the queries were still functioning correctly. Turns out WidgetGrid was hiding our comment text and disabling WidgetGrid brought them back.
I'm experiencing the opposite -- when WIdgetGrid is enabled, I can see all the images and info in my repeatables just fine.
However, when I disable WidgetGrid, they disappear. My end users can't see the items in the repeatables anymore whether WidgetGrid is enabled or disabled.
WidgetGrid enabled:
UPDATE: I re-built the disappearing components with WidgetGrid turned on (they were previously built before it was released) and they seem to be working fine now.
Our team is mostly heads down working through our task list, but I did want to pop in to make sure that I communicate clearly: even if you don't get a direct response in this thread from us, we are tracking these bugs and working on fixes.
Thank you for the feedback so far, and we appreciate everyone's willingness to play around with our early access features!
Have the same issue - everything went blank.
"I re-built the disappearing components with WidgetGrid turned on" - seriously? is there no other way? Can't I turn widget-grid on by default for end users?
