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by penagwin 2510 days ago
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.

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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.