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Could you expand on this a little? I'm using Retool now for a client, and while some parts are a little shaky, I can see how it's saved a lot of time over devel

• sparsely 6y ago
  It's really great for exactly that use case, creating lots of internal dashboards from scratch. Part of how it makes it really easy is that you don't go through all the normal dev practices, and will normally connect directly to your datastores as well as any api endpoints your service provides. This creates a huge amount of deeply hidden coupling. You'll also inevitably need to go beyond the functionality that retool offers, at which point their development experience really breaks down, and you'll have to either come up with some bespoke workflow to integrate complex custom components, or migrate away. Despite all this I really like it as a tool, it just needs to be approached with care.
• tyingq 6y ago
  One thing they did that looks nice is their git syncing: https://docs.retool.com/docs/git-syncing https://docs.retool.com/docs/git-syncing The tool spreads "code" around in a lot of different ways, like mustache templates, transformers, and orchestrations. So it would be hard to keep track of all that without the git integration. I didn't look at it deep enough to see what dealing with, for example, a change in the source data schema would look like.