I am a little frustrated at the amount of time it took me to align things within grids. It may be because I am new to editor X and I do not know all the short cuts or may be there is some room for improvement in the functionality. I could have used a repeater, but my experience using repeaters in the old Wix editor is that they are inherently slower. Since my data is not dynamic I resorted to using grids instead of repeaters.
Here is what I went through and how it could be improved. I have a number of tiles (containers all same size like a deck of cards), somewhere from 15-20 and I wanted them laid out in 5 columns, 4 columns, 3 columns, or 1 column depending on the breakpoint. Each card is 180x260px. Creating the cards or the grids did not take much time. But positioning the card at the center of each grid took a long long time. For each card, I had to select it and set the ‘align’ to center through a menu item. Then I had to bring the menu again and set align to middle. Doing this for 4 different breakpoints for 16 items is 16x2x4 = 128 times.
Here is the first improvement I would suggest. Instead of providing a menu list for align to contain 6 items (left,center,right,top,middle,bottom) give a menu list of 9 items (tl,tc,tr, ml,mc,mr, bl,bc,br). Thus instead of bringing the menu twice (one for center and one for middle) you can accomplish in 1 step (mc).
Here is the second improvement I suggest. Instead of providing the alignment option for each of the containers within the grids, provide an alignment option on the grid itself so that one action on the grid itself will apply to all the containers within the grids. For a 4x4 grid that will cut down the time it takes to align the items by 128.