Why doesn't Webflow provide an official reinitialization API?

When implementing SPAs (Barba.js, Swup, etc.) with Webflow, components need to be reinitialized after dynamic content loads.

Why doesn’t Webflow provide an official API to handle this? Something like:

  • Webflow.reinit() → Reinitialize everything

  • Webflow.reinit(‘module’) → Reinitialize specific modules

Currently, developers have to reverse-engineer internal code and manually reinitialize components, which is fragile and breaks with Webflow updates.

An official API would greatly improve support for modern page transitions. Is this on the roadmap?

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