Subcategories in the node palette

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Hello everyone, how are you doing?
I have been developing nodes for Node-RED for quite some time, specifically since version 1.0.

At my company, we developed a complete chatbot for WhatsApp and other communicators entirely using Node-RED, with custom-created nodes.

As a result, the node palette ends up being somewhat disorganized with only one category. With this in mind, I started implementing a category system for the nodes. With this change, when creating a node, you can pass not only the category attribute but also another attribute called subCategory. This way, Node-RED will build nested dropdowns in the node palette according to the categories, greatly facilitating the work of those who use many nodes.

What do you think?

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:raised_hand: I would also love this for organising the Dashboard nodes

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Hi @rafafrecceiro

It has been something that has come up a small number of times over the years; but it has never translated into anything other than a high level idea. And it hasn't been compelling enough for me to spend my time on.

If you have a more concrete proposal over how it would work; ie how the categories are defined in a backwards compatible way, how the UI presents the categories etc, then please do share.

Nick

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If someone has the time to create the containers for the parent category and the child category, that would help me to move forward :pray: