Hi all, I’m excited to share that we are starting our beta for Multipage apps!
With multipage apps, you can create a single app that has multiple pages! This helps solve problems like:
- Performance of large apps
- Flashing when navigating between apps
- Having to edit multiple apps in multiple browser tabs
- App sprawl on the home page
- Creating list detail views
- Sharing data between apps
- Reduce module usage with shared navigation
Multipage web and mobile apps have shown significant increases in performance and faster app load times.
Cloud orgs can enable Multipage in their organization's Beta settings. On-prem orgs can sign-up by filling out this form.
Features
Checkout our documentation, to see our full feature list.
Creating a Multipage app
When multipage apps are enabled on your instance, you can create a new app by clicking on the “Multipage app” dropdown option
Creating a page
You can add pages to your app or import a single page app by clicking the + in the IDE’s new “Pages” tab.
Read more here on how to connect apps via navigation.
Multiple pages effect on performance
With multipage, Retool only evaluates the plugins on the current page, which means your pages and app can grow without worrying impacting other page’s speed.
In testing, we found multipage apps to be 30-40% faster on initial load than single-page counterparts.
What’s next?
- Global & page-specific frames (e.g. Drawer, Modal, Split Pane, Sidebar, Header)
- Public, embed, portals app
- Parity between single page and multipage apps
Keep track of our latest fixes and ships here
Why is there a distinction between single and multipage apps?
Our end goal is for all apps to support adding multiple pages. However, for public beta there will be two types of apps: Single page and multipage. We make this distinction because we still have multipage feature parity work that we need to do (e.g. multiplayer, theming, etc.)
How do I sign-up?
Cloud orgs can enable Multipage in their organization's Beta settings. On-prem orgs can sign-up by filling out this form.
If you signed up and still don’t see multipage after a couple days, please email us at multipage-team@retool.com.
Help! Something is broken:
Please report any bugs via Support or this forum.
