One feature that I really like and that speeds up my work is the ability to run scripts directly on the canvas, to edit gsap animations, sliders with swiper.js without having to publish each change. It's a big help.
@@webflowandcode I couldn't imagine trying to tell my clients they have to open up air table and update a CSV to update their site. They would all leave me. I guess you can hack together something with forms and zapier but that adds more cost and more reliability issues. Seems like it's a couple years away from being a serious contender. I'm really trying to find a webflow alternative. I don't have any faith in them anymore. They just pulled the rug from logic and user accounts. And although those services were not perfect the fact they released them, people built solutions with them and now we're all being told if we used those features we have to find another way to do it making me personally have to rethink about 40 sites which will cost me thousands of dollars worth of redeveloping costs has me more furious than I've been in a long time. legit might close my entire business cause I don't know how I have time or money to fix this.
@@webflowandcode yes and/or unlimited sites in pro accounts. It seems like they're directly hostable via webstudio directly onto cloudflare pages (without having to move to Netlify or others)
Great video, exactly what I was looking for and current (as of now) I’m making the shift for the pricing reasons, but I’m prolly going to stay because it’s open source and I could run an entire agency team on just this and penpot. Any other tools like these that designers/devs have started embracing?
Quick question. If you want to "graduate from Webflow" and dive deeper into web dev, is Webstudio a good step to take or would you be better off (in the long term) by going the OG way (don't know how to call it, but develop the code from scratch in your IDE and manually set-up your stack)? Thanks in advance :)
Hey Samuel, Can you post a video on how to perform gsap animations. Every single time you need to perform an animation ,You need to import the gsap cdn on html embed. This method goes complex when you have to maintain large production sites.
This is the way unfortunately. But once GSAP has been downloaded via CDN the browser caches the file. It’s not redownloading it on each page. You might choose to put the CDN link inside of custom code in site settings if you want it on every page but this puts it in the head. You want GSAP at the bottom of the page so for now embed in a component is our only option.
Good video, you introduced me to webstudio and I think about switching now. One small thing I noticed is the missing variables tab from webflow with the global variables as well. I think this might get added in the future though. A very good tool still!
Definitely intriguing. One thing I'm curious about is how do such projects continue to advance when they are open source? Is it like WordPress where a group of volunteers basically keep it moving onward? Just has me wonder how it can develop over time versus Framer/Webflow, which has really fast dev moments in their growth
I think initially they need to present a compelling proposition where many people can get behind. If this is weak from the start then it will not survive. It’s the same process for any open source projects. It starts with the foundations, the reason and then the community will decide if that is important enough for it to survive in the long run. People will vote with their contributions at the end of the day
One feature that I really like and that speeds up my work is the ability to run scripts directly on the canvas, to edit gsap animations, sliders with swiper.js without having to publish each change. It's a big help.
This is possible with the switch “run in canvas” I believe?
@@webflowandcode Yes!
@@theusmabit this is something webflow should have :)
This and penpot are looking good. An open source stack. Blender is a good example of how far open source can go.
I'm really hoping for Blender type success for these two. Toddle as well on the web app development side once they go open source next year.
man, something says.. just my intuition that Penpot will became the "Framer" of open source in some years. I would not let this tool behind.
What exactly are you talking with CMS? For which kind of use are you talking about?
Any and all with a rest API. Check out my website build in Webstudio to see how it’s done
@@webflowandcode I couldn't imagine trying to tell my clients they have to open up air table and update a CSV to update their site. They would all leave me. I guess you can hack together something with forms and zapier but that adds more cost and more reliability issues. Seems like it's a couple years away from being a serious contender.
I'm really trying to find a webflow alternative. I don't have any faith in them anymore. They just pulled the rug from logic and user accounts. And although those services were not perfect the fact they released them, people built solutions with them and now we're all being told if we used those features we have to find another way to do it making me personally have to rethink about 40 sites which will cost me thousands of dollars worth of redeveloping costs has me more furious than I've been in a long time. legit might close my entire business cause I don't know how I have time or money to fix this.
I really appreciate you. I watch a lot of your videos.
Thank you for sticking with it! Thank you for the kind words.
Great video!! 🔥
Thanks a lot! I don’t get it sadly fully, is it a wysiwyg builder? Can I make/see my designs which is translated to code?
Exactly
@@webflowandcode Can I also do self-hosting and export the code in a good file structure already? And: I dont need to build in Figma first?
It also lets you host to cloudflare directly from webstudio . Without having to download the files . Or am I wrong.
Are you referring to the 1 hosted website that the free plan has to offer?
@@webflowandcode yes and/or unlimited sites in pro accounts. It seems like they're directly hostable via webstudio directly onto cloudflare pages (without having to move to Netlify or others)
Yeah you can host sites with Webstudio. I can’t confirm where exactly it’s hosted though.
Great video, exactly what I was looking for and current (as of now)
I’m making the shift for the pricing reasons, but I’m prolly going to stay because it’s open source and I could run an entire agency team on just this and penpot.
Any other tools like these that designers/devs have started embracing?
Are choosing remix over next.js?
Never try remix would love to know your opinion on that.
I’ve not used Remix but have used Next extensively. Sorry I can’t provide an opinion
Quick question.
If you want to "graduate from Webflow" and dive deeper into web dev, is Webstudio a good step to take or would you be better off (in the long term) by going the OG way (don't know how to call it, but develop the code from scratch in your IDE and manually set-up your stack)?
Thanks in advance :)
Probably Pinegrow is more 1-2-1 with web dev knowledge/no code
Thanks for the review, looking for a backup builder solution to WP, no CSS grid yet, so will keep it in mind for future. For now Bricks for me
Grid is there and possible, just no real nice interface for it
What is your take on Framer?
Search my channel for Webflow vs framer
Hey Samuel, Can you post a video on how to perform gsap animations. Every single time you need to perform an animation ,You need to import the gsap cdn on html embed. This method goes complex when you have to maintain large production sites.
This is the way unfortunately. But once GSAP has been downloaded via CDN the browser caches the file. It’s not redownloading it on each page. You might choose to put the CDN link inside of custom code in site settings if you want it on every page but this puts it in the head. You want GSAP at the bottom of the page so for now embed in a component is our only option.
webstudio is a complete game changer
Good video, you introduced me to webstudio and I think about switching now.
One small thing I noticed is the missing variables tab from webflow with the global variables as well.
I think this might get added in the future though.
A very good tool still!
Agreed. Keep pestering them and I’m sure you’ll see variables soon
Definitely intriguing. One thing I'm curious about is how do such projects continue to advance when they are open source? Is it like WordPress where a group of volunteers basically keep it moving onward? Just has me wonder how it can develop over time versus Framer/Webflow, which has really fast dev moments in their growth
I think initially they need to present a compelling proposition where many people can get behind. If this is weak from the start then it will not survive. It’s the same process for any open source projects. It starts with the foundations, the reason and then the community will decide if that is important enough for it to survive in the long run. People will vote with their contributions at the end of the day
@@webflowandcode that's interesting. I never really followed how open source projects grew from the beginnings. Thanks for the insights!!
you almost had me then you started listing crippling issues with webstudio that makes me feel like this is not it. At least not yet.
Glad the information was helpful. I still think it’s worth a shot but only you know your requirements
Did you mean Wix Studio?
lol. Imagine!