Looking for Information, Documentation, and Roadmap on Webflow Architecture

[crstn (Carsten Jaksch)]

Regarding the wishlist: There is an update and some kind of roadmap for 2021.

So has The Wishlist been abandoned?

Hi everyone! I’m JZ, the VP of Product here at Webflow and I wanted to personally address the topic of our Wishlist. One of the reasons we haven’t been great at communicating the progress on the wishlist is that our roadmap is dynamic and evolving in real-time. It adjusts based on the needs of our customers, what we’re seeing in the market, and what we’re capable of building at the moment. We hesitate on sharing a roadmap that’s too far out when it’s constantly evolving which could result in di…

To your questions:

1. I think it is not possible to enhance the CMS since Webflow is a low-code platform. If you need features, the Wishlist is your best bet (but prepare to wait years at the moment). Maybe there will be a plugin system in the future …

2. and 3. There is an API, but I don‘t know if it fits your needs. Also, you can add custom code in the designer to do all kind of JavaScript stuff.

Intro to Webflow’s APIs - Webflow University Documentation

Custom code embed - Webflow University Documentation

4. This question is better answered by staff, but with the API it should be possible to run Webflow in some kind of headless fashion.

And to my knowledge, Webflow uses AWS under the hood and scales automatically.

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