Missing components/features in Webflow
Hey everyone! Just wondered what you all felt you needed in Webflow but wasn't there natively/easily? Custom sliders are something that comes to mind but, what else? Multi step forms maybe. But these are already pretty well covered by finsweet and Studioform respectively.
Be keen to hear your thoughts and I could produce some cloneables for components. I'm currently building out a library of components that are based on a blend on relume/client first, utilising components/slots. There are some interesting approaches that Timothy Ricks uses with regards to components and grid CSS too that have caught my eye. Just kind of thinking aloud and would like to hear your pain points too and see if I can help contribute to the community.
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โ€ข Aug '24
This is a great question. The list could be very long, but personally when I think of components which are not in Webflow but which would be useful in the context of web app, what comes to mind are features such as a messaging page, or an expandable chat window. A clean, Relume style design for that could be tied together with a simple Xano Snippet that utilizes realtime messaging, coupled with the Wized logic for it could serve as a great starting point for everyone looking to build that feature into their app, because it is a very popular one! Just one idea!
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โ€ข Aug '24
that's a great idea!
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โ€ข Aug '24
Love this question and as mentioned the wishlist could be very long. You might want to take a look at the Webflow Wishlist to find more inspiration about what would be nice (https://wishlist.webflow.com/).
In terms of components, I had the webflow limitation with auto-reply when filling out a form. There are a few workarounds with make, n8n or Zapier to handle this and paid solutions. But natively you do not have a form auto-reply onboard. Also, the filtering and nesting for CMS Collection Items is pretty limited when building a bigger filter page and using a lot of multi-reference fields for one item.
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โ€ข Aug '24
thanks Jan! Some great ideas. Hadn't thought about checking the wishlist, will definitely do that.
Would still love to hear from people in this community - please keep the comments coming. It's smaller communities like this that give us the opportunity to have in-depth conversations and stress test solutions as they are built. We all get to build together!
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โ€ข Aug '24
This is actually very doable with Webflow/Wized/Xano if I am understanding the problem correctly! WIth Wized, we disable the forms default behavior of submitting through Webflow - instead, we capture that info when the user submits it, and send it to Xano, where we can trigger a SendGrid email to be automatically sent. The boilerplate in the classroom actually already has this functionality, allowing you to auto-respond to any custom trigger! Let me know if you'd like me to go into further detail about it :)
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Kris YogDog Specifically about the slides the best solution I have found is
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