Mendix 8 Pluggable Widgets - Containers?

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Is it possible to make ‘container’ pluggable widgets in Mendix 8? I.e Can regular mendix widgets be passed as React children? For example consider this simple React widget:   const CardGrid = props => (   <div className=’card-grid’>    {props.children}   </div> ); This will use CSS Grid to layout all the children HTML elements.  Can I nest widgets within pluggable widgets in Mendix? E.g. Using the existing mendix card building block.  In mendix we have inbuilt ‘container’ widgets for this kind of thing, but I would like to take advantage of the responsiveness & flexibility of CSS grid which neither ‘layout grid’ nor ‘template grid’ can offer in Mendix  
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You can do this since v8.3.0 by defining a property in the widget xml of type=”widgets”.

See the docs section 3.3. Widgets

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At the moment, you cannot nest pluggable widgets (or the older custom widgets). I expect that we’ll see this capability at some point in the not-so-distant future, as it would open up a ton of possibilities for widgets.

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It is talked about in the presentation at Mendix world

https://www.mendix.com/mendix-world/2019-recap/

Maximizing Next Generation Experiences with Mendix Pluggable Components

It not there yet.. would be love to see it

 

 

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thanks for the answers!

It will be really cool if we get this feature at some point. Hopefully soon!

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