--- title: Best Retool posts of 2022 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Retool posts of 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/retool/best-of/2022 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/retool/best-of/2022 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Retool posts of 2022 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Retool posts of 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Retool — 2022 1. 1 [](/posts/openblocks-dev-openblocks-the-open-source-retool-alternative-cpbermiha "openblocks-dev/openblocks: ✨ The open-source Retool alternative") Article Changelog · 4y openblocks-dev/openblocks: ✨ The open-source Retool alternative Low-code/No-code platforms are fast to get started with but quickly become unmaintainable and inflexible. Retool-like solutions are great for their simplicity and flexibility, but they can also be limited in different ways. 41 1 2. 2 [](/posts/create-a-low-code-ecommerce-app-with-stripe-postgres-rest-api-backend-es7vxuwkq "Create a Low-Code Ecommerce App with Stripe, Postgres, & REST API Backend") Article freeCodeCamp · 4y Create a Low-Code Ecommerce App with Stripe, Postgres, & REST API Backend A low-code platform can give you pre-built UI components packed with functionality like tables, buttons, and text inputs. This allows you to skip the frontend templates and build your own quickly. We just published a tutorial on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel. 19 1 3. 3 [](/posts/2021-tech-highlights-best-software-for-dev-teams-stcudh0ea "2021 Tech Highlights: Best Software For Dev Teams") Article JavaScript in Plain English · 5y 2021 Tech Highlights: Best Software For Dev Teams GitLive makes Git LIVE. Wallaby is an integrated continuous testing tool for JavaScript. FireHydrant is a tool that “fires out” data and alerts for incidents. Retool is a collection of drag and drop components that allow you to build an elegant UI. 19 1 4. 4 [](/posts/learning-css-in-2023-with-kevin-powell-js-party-255--1hniofych "Learning CSS in 2023 with Kevin Powell (JS Party #255)") Article Changelog · 4y Learning CSS in 2023 with Kevin Powell (JS Party #255) Learn CSS in 2023 JS Party with Kevin Powell in a wide ranging discussion about CSS and how to learn it. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. 17 1 5. 5 [](/posts/2021-tech-highlights-best-software-for-dev-teams-poz5bi--7 "2021 Tech Highlights: Best Software For Dev Teams") Article DZone · 5y 2021 Tech Highlights: Best Software For Dev Teams The last 12 months were filled with constant learning and adapting to the new trends that completely changed the way we used to work. The challenges we faced pushed us into searching for convenient software that could help us handle the new normal. In this short post, I would like to share with you the discoveries I made this year in the field of developer tools. 16 6. 6 [](/posts/how-i-replaced-google-analytics-with-retool-and-tinybird-part-1-ueytjigl0 "How I replaced Google Analytics with Retool and Tinybird, Part 1") Article Tinybird · 4y How I replaced Google Analytics with Retool and Tinybird, Part 1 Tinybird has released a Web Analytics Starter Kit that lets you deploy an end-to-end customizable Google Analytics alternative in less than 5 minutes. In web parlance, a ‘session’ is a collection of events that begins when a visitor enters the domain and ends when they exit the domain. The tracker doesn’t send ‘exit’ events to the Tinybird data source. This is fine for now. 12 1 7. 7 [](/posts/how-we-upgraded-our-4-tb-main-application-postgres-database-0nfxj1qe2 "How we upgraded our 4 TB main application Postgres database") Article Retool · 4y How we upgraded our 4 TB main application Postgres database Retool’s cloud-hosted product is backed by a single beefy 4 TB Postgres database. Last fall, we migrated this database from Postgres version 9.6 to version 13 with minimal downtime. 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