WebflowConf Review

A look at Webflow announments last week at WebflowConf
November 20, 2022
Webflow

A look at Webflow announments last week at WebflowConf

Well you can see full details at Webflow blog or here, I will jump directly into features:

Symbols are now Components

Clearly oriented to frameworks as React and PWAs (Progressive Web Apps). These integrations will be really good for big projects, so you can now do full atomic approach on your projects. Same as they have on other web builders (thy have this on Framer as example).

DevLink

So stop thinking about doing landing pages or small sites and get bigger. Workflows are going to change for big projects. We could have a company where Design team makes a Design System, then it is taken by Webflow Designers/Developers to create components and integrate them with React or other similar frameworks. See more

CMS Scaling

This is going beyond 10,000 items, everything depends on what plan do you /your client has. I think surely they could overtake other CMS limitations such as Collections number on a page, number of items shown, number o nested collections, but this will go against performance so don´t see really interest on it (you can use Jetboost or Finsweet for that)

Native multi-language support to come in 2023

The boys from Linguana, Weglot or Polyflow won´t be happy about this. Anyway, there´s market for all, same as happens with Memberships where we have others such as Wized, Memberstack, Outseta, etc.

Lot of people wanted this, number two in the Webflow Wishlist. I wonder if this feature will have its cost as they made with other features. I have read about Chinese sites issues dealing with the big Firewall, I hope they can jump it. For me for example, I made a bilingual site both in English and arabic and aside from thinking right to left, it was a good experience

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