A challenge we faced in early development was creating a folder management tool — well… that wasn’t a challenge, per se. The folder manager itself was easy, but then we needed a folder selection tool for entities, an active folder selection tool, folder preset selection, a folder visibility manager, and so on.
Long story short, when you need so many variations of the same component, it’s very easy to fall into the trap of reinventing the wheel, which bloats your codebase with redundant logic and risks an inconsistent UX.
To solve this problem, I rolled out a modular folder picker component this past week. It features the same design and user experience in every context, with configurable functionality based on settings.