Summary
Returning to Retool Cloud after some time away, a long-standing set of app-editor UX and reliability complaints are perceived as worse than before, most critically queries/resources losing all their code content (especially when working across a second browser tab or multiple pages) and edits not persisting after refresh, alongside code-editor cursor jumping to the end of the line when renaming resources or typing dynamic {{ }} values.
AI Response
These specific behaviors have been reported by others and are acknowledged. The empty/lost query content when moving between pages or tabs has a known root cause tied to VS Code sync and an active internal ticket; if it happens, the reliable recovery is to append the _historyOffset URL parameter to step back through app history and restore the original query content before continuing. The code-editor cursor jumping to the end of the line while typing or renaming is also a corroborated, solved report, so it is not an isolated environment issue. Working in a single tab per app and doing a full refresh before resuming editing after switching pages both reduce the frequency of the content-loss and stale-state symptoms.
Sources
Queries in apps are becoming empty
Corroborates queries/resources becoming empty after switching pages, identifies VS Code sync as the root cause with an active internal ticket, and shows the _historyOffset workaround to recover lost query content.
Solved report directly matching the code editor deleting characters and jumping the cursor while typing/renaming.
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