Just read Webflow's latest article, Getting to the Source, and it actually changed the way I think about webflow. I always knew you could export code, but I never really thought about the fact that you can't bring it back. Their explanation of the layer between the visual editor and the final code made a lot of today's limitations make sense. What I found even more interesting wasn't the architecture itself, but the problem they're trying to solve. Building a website is only the beginning. The real challenge is everything that comes after: designers, developers, marketers, and AI all making changes to the same project. That's something I wrote about after experimenting with AI coding a while back. Generating a project is getting easier every day. Iterating on it is the hard part. The idea of making code the single source of truth, with the visual editor and AI simply becoming two different ways to work with the same project, is a really interesting direction. Curious to see where this goes.
Just read Webflow's latest article, Getting to the Source, and it actually changed the way I think about webflow. I always knew you could export code, but I never really thought about the fact that you can't bring it back. Their explanation of the layer between the visual editor and the final code made a lot of today's limitations make sense. What I found even more interesting wasn't the architecture itself, but the problem they're trying to solve. Building a website is only the beginning. The real challenge is everything that comes after: designers, developers, marketers, and AI all making changes to the same project. That's something I wrote about after experimenting with AI coding a while back. Generating a project is getting easier every day. Iterating on it is the hard part. The idea of making code the single source of truth, with the visual editor and AI simply becoming two different ways to work with the same project, is a really interesting direction. Curious to see where this goes.
