More posts from Ryan Lucas

How Visual Basic became the world's most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.

Get an overview of the best React component libraries looking at several factors like popularity, use cases, documentation, resources, support, and more.

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a slider in React with `react-slider`, a popular little component / library that Zillow open sourced back in 2021. We’ll cover how to customize the various components of the slider (dimensions, values, colors, etc.).

This guide aims to share everything you need to know about Vue components, and includes in-depth examples of class components, dynamic components, single file components, functional components, and table components.

Lazy loading is an optimization technique where the loading of an item is delayed until it’s absolutely required. It works well for common UX components and patterns like dialogs, warnings, and notifications. Learn how to build and use lazily-loaded components in React.

If you’ve ever had to wrangle a maze of marketing, sales, and BI tools—just to end up plugging it all into a spreadsheet—this article is for you. We’ll go over the three core dashboards and explain why we treat our analytics as a product rather than a static dashboard.

Here is how to build a simple yet powerful admin panel for your MongoDB instance. We’ll demonstrate how to query data, build tables and components, and use inline JavaScript to customize them.

We’ve recently shipped two updates that help make Markdown a first-class citizen in Retool: a completely redesigned Text component and a new App Documentation feature.

We’re excited to announce our new chart component is generally available for all customers. Now you can bring custom and interactive visualizations to every Retool app.

The story behind how Mike Brophy (VP of Global Renewals at Neo4J) reduced churn by built a custom internal tool to manage renewals outside of Salesforce.

The story behind how Andrew Mason (CEO and Founder of Descript) lifted the load off engineering teams building internal tools by moving to Retool.

As a not-so-technical marketer, I dread asking engineers these types of questions. It’s not that I have a deep-seated fear of working with developers or anything like that. In my experience, most people are happy to help (at least for the first few times).