Hey All,
Last Dev Day, we talked about Stacks, which are flexbox-like containers that can provide more layout granularity than Retool’s 12-column grid. We’re ready to launch Stacks in a private beta for Cloud users. If you’d like to test Stacks, please fill out this form.
If you have any feedback, please feel free to share it in this thread or by emailing kent@retool.com. Stacks are not yet fully featured, but they’re stable enough to start to use in apps and experiment with. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of the next things we’ll be working on:
- A flex-wrap equivalent
- Adding stacks as a layout option on all frames (sidebar, header, main)
- Directly specifying component height/width with pixel values
- Reordering Stack components in the component tree instead of by dragging on the canvas
There are a few known bugs & ergonomic issues:
- Copying and pasting within a Stack does not add the pasted component to the end of the Stack
- Copying and pasting within a Stack does not preserve component height/width settings
How do I turn stacks on?
Stacks are an option on Container and Group components – they can be toggled by setting a container’s “Display” property to “Stack”.Thanks!
