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by abledon 2509 days ago
Wow, designers must be shitting their pants. You could fire a whole department and use this stuff easily!
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If you only need a static website then it's a great solution.

But it is NOT hard to start running into barriers. In my experience it's essentially impossible to use it as a frontend design tool with say a node.js backend. There's no templating support, very restricted export (their CMS costs extra per site, and isn't part of the export), etc.

If your website has a login button then I'd be impressed if you designed the whole thing in webflow.

Exact reason why we migrated a webflow site to Next.js/GraphQL/Contentful/Hasura stack.

Webflow is an awesome design tool, but the exported code is very messy to work with. If are a designer or plan to stay on webflow for simpler static sites, it wouldn't matter though.

However, It does create a technical debt if you happen to scale up and your needs grow.

Webflow doesn't eliminate the need for design, it eliminates the need for front-end development on static sites.
* eliminates the need for front-end development on static sites

I have been using it since its beta days for my blog and some mockups and am not sure I agree. It is one of the finest 'web design tool' that I have ever used. But one that will create a technical debt for the 'real front end developers' in the future.