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Webstudio Beta — An open source Webflow alternative
Webstudio Beta is our first production-grade release.
You can build a static site with Builder UX inspired by Webflow, improved by us. Publish it for free to Webstudio Cloud. Enjoy performance of CloudFlare Workers and modern front-end architecture.
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@oleg008 Can I import/integrate an entire Svelte UI component library like Skeleton.dev into Webstudio and use the Svelte components just like native Webstudio components? That would be a killer feature!
@fliponeup Our goal is to become completely framework agnostic, but we are not there yet, first UI kits will be React-based, then once we are happy with how they work and fully customizable, we will open an API for everyone to integrate with other frameworks.
Think of it as of marketplace
@alexander_pavlyukov On the surface it is! We made some significant improvements though, what will you build?
While there are still a few features missing, things are definitely looking promising!.
I'm truly excited about the potential that Webstudio holds and can't wait to see it reach its full capabilities! (we definitely need a Webflow alternative)
Congratulations Oleg. This looks awesome. It's exciting to see how polished and refined this looks. Polished design is definitely not something I would have associated with open source in the past but that is changing quickly!
Can you share more about how the Design Tokens feature works?
@davej Time to change the perception of open source while also changing the perception of what nocode tools can do?
Looks like a promising tool compared to framer, and the best part being Open source is awesome! Congrats on the launch folks 🚀
Congrats for the Webstudio Beta launch!🚀 I can see all the hard work that went into and you guys nailed it! Really great job 👏🤞
The team behind Webstudio is really amazing! And the fact that their work is open sourced makes it even more amazing!
Wishing you good luck with the lunch of Webstudio!
@swami_t We are still working on a CLI to make export easy.
Multiple people can work on the same project by sharing a link with build permission enabled. Not simultaneously though until we release multiplayer.
@swami_t newsletter as in sent per email? Emails have a special set of restrictions. It's not just modern html/css. We want to support this use case but not yet.
@oleg008 sorry, its not quite clear. So, we're making a standalone digital Magazine each month. It has about 15-20 pages. (https://isha.sadhguru.org/magazi..., like a little linear microsite magazine. Its static as such, no database or anythying. We just export the project from Webflow and then upload it to our servers. Is something like this possible? If not yet, any idea on timeline?
@swami_t yes this will be possible with the upcoming CLI release, no timeline comment, but we are working on it as we speak, so its a matterof weeks/months.
Super cool! Excited to try this out.
🌱 One comment: Love that this is an open source product... in the spirit of that, you may want to consider allowing for email signup in the app as opposed to forcing the choice between Github and Google. Seems like it would be in line with the open source ethos to decouple those companies from using the product.
@puppycodes Absolutely. In fact In am maybe ok with github as it is being GDPR compliant but I don't love the fact that its microsoft. Google was just necessity as we didn't have time to build other options yet and designers usually don't have github.
We will be revisiting login that's for sure.
wow very impressed by this open source project. I hope it'll go far. I hate webflow global CSS classes.
Congrats on the launch! is it easy for a non-developer to build RTL websites on Webstudio?
@deandaman There is no special automation that would turn a website into RTL and there is no yet multilingual features, but basic stuff like css "direction" in typography and other general purpose style properties useful for rtl sites.
That being said it would be really cool to have something automated like https://github.com/MohammadYoune... but it hasn't been a priority so far.
A huge congrats for the launch @oleg008 & team! An open source alternative to Webflow was long overdue - very excited to see how Webstudio evolves over the coming years. :)
@siahouchangnia Thank you Sia, so happy to get to the point where we are today, now it's only upwards!
Webstudio
And that’s not all! Here are some other upgrades that we are working on and will be making public this year:
🎯 Real-time Collaboration: With this upgrade, multiple designers and visual developers will be able to collaborate in real-time on Webstudio at no extra charge, just like in Figma! 💻 Backend Versatility- no more limits to what CMSs and databases you can use. You will use CMSs like WordPress, Sanity, Airtable, or Notion as if they were built in, even though they are separate UIs! 🔗 Native Extensibility- You get to add features as if they were built into the platform through React components and plugins. And last but not least – it’s all open-source. 💚 🧮 What’s coming next The Beta Version is only the beginning - the static site builder that is not so static technically. With these upcoming features, you will soon witness the full power of the architecture: 📌 AI Integration 📌 Figma Tokens Sync 📌 UI Kits 📌 CMSs and Databases 📌 Versioning 📌 Real-Time Collaboration 📌 Interactions and Animations … and a lot more. Stay tuned! If you want to learn more about the features that set Webstudio apart, check out https://webstudio.is/blog/webstu...!