That looks fantastic! I own a startup where we used to relay he-vea-ly on retool (until we could automate most of the Retool work with ChatGpt haha).
I would have tried out your approach if it was out back then, I am much more well-versed in Python than JS. Having some way to write code in files, and then link it to the table structure makes a lot of sense (having lots of spaghetti code all over the place was one of the core issues of Retool, also it became slooooow at some point). Simplifying to a table + sidebar view is a very good idea (that's all we ever did).
I would have tried out your approach if it was out back then, I am much more well-versed in Python than JS. Having some way to write code in files, and then link it to the table structure makes a lot of sense (having lots of spaghetti code all over the place was one of the core issues of Retool, also it became slooooow at some point). Simplifying to a table + sidebar view is a very good idea (that's all we ever did).