{
  "id": 10074769,
  "title": "Extending react-grid-layout: Cross-Instance Drag & Drop + Multi-Level Nesting",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/extending-react-grid-layout-cross-instance-drag-drop-multi-level",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-26T21:49:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/andrii_taranenko_8237af66/extending-react-grid-layout-cross-instance-drag-drop-multi-level-nesting-19gi"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "react-grid-layout is great for single-grid drag & drop, but it doesn't support: Moving items between separate grid instances Nesting grids inside grids with independent layout state Here's how I extended it to handle both, in a React + TypeScript setup. The problem cross-grid multi-level dnd Approach Inspected react-grid-layout source core Result Curious if anyone's tackled this differently -…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}