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Website Development Workflow: Code vs. No Code Approaches

When you guys are working on websites for clients, are you getting into code, and using a VS Code and Github kinda workflow, or is it overkill for most projects?

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Matt J.
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Jack G. in the context of Webflow development or?
Sofian B.
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For clients website (Marketing website) -> overkill.
Nour
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Jack G. From a dev side, I believe so. What are the other ways?
Jack G.
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I guess I did mean for a marketing site built in Webflow. At what point would you start bringing your code in via github (or other)?
Aurelien S.
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Hey Jack G. I’m testing a workflow for when a client just needs a landing page I build it in webflow, export and import it to GitHub then host it with vercel. It’s fairly simple and free and you can also connect a custom domain for free as well as select Australian servers. You loose the CMS and webflow forms. But if you just embed a lead capture form that’s no problem. Anyone else tried this? Thoughts?
Matt J.
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Aurelien S. very interesting and economical! What do you charge for something like that?
Matt J.
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Jack G. I'm curious of this as well, sounds interesting. I love GitHub, I've been a member since 2008, used it for all kinds of things but I have not considered using it for Webflow. For external code, I've used Slater.app - helped me generate the code as well as editing/hosting it.
Jack G.
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There are a few tutorials on youtube on how to set up vs code > github > Webflow. I followed along and got it set up, and once it's done, the workflow is nice.
Jack G.
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I have a few small builds in mind that could use some Javascript / Typescript
Matt J.
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Jack G. nice, in the past you weren't able to serve files from GitHub similar to a CDN so I wonder how that has changed or is worked around - mind sharing that youtube link?
Aurelien S.
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Matt J. this guide did it for me: https://youtu.be/a7iUidmU3c4
Jack G.
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Matt J. this is probably the clearest tutorial for setting up a vs code > github > webflow workflow. A few steps I don't really understand, but I just followed them, and it's working. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QjI2DRVWwI&ab_channel=CLCreative Then, Web Bae has a tutorial, which adds an extra step to support Typescript as well as Javascript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq0jw3_d5Ig&t=445s&ab_channel=WebBae