ProtoPie 4.3 update

ProtoPie 4.3 is out and with it comes a slew of new features including nested components, auto-complete send & receive messages, new formula updates for the color property and a real device status bar.

Darren Bennett
6 min readMar 25, 2020

Nested Components

You can now nest components inside components inside components, well you get the idea!

A component with nested button components
The main scene showing nested components

The ability to infinitely nest components has been a long awaited feature, up to now we could only create components at one level which meant that components had limited use beyond basic reusability but now with nesting we can start to Build prototypes with more longevity such as evolutionary prototypes and also it will allow us to replicate a design systems approach to prototyping. 4.3 builds upon the following features to give us more control and flexibility in these areas:

  • Overrides
  • Send and Receive

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