Should you use Webflow App Gen in Production?
Introduction to Webflow App Gen Build
Webflow App Gen is revolutionizing how developers build interactive apps directly within the Webflow ecosystem, but integrating existing Webflow components remains a major hurdle for production builds. In this video, we dive deep into troubleshooting common errors like white screens and build failures, offering practical solutions to get your app gen projects up and running smoothly with your site's design system.
Attempting to Integrate Webflow Components
If you remember from the last video, there was an issue where adding them just kind of breaks the entire site. And we're going to see. Is it going to break my entire site? I genuinely don't know. It has every other time I've tried it. Let's go and see.
Debugging Build Failures and White Screen Issues
I don't know if I need to copy this, but I'm going to copy it and paste it in and hopefully can figure out why my build failed. I wonder if it has something to do with what is making my entire screen white. I could definitely imagine does. I need to use named exports instead of default exports.
Deploying Without Navigation and Footer
It's showing all of the content now and the rest of my site looks fine, but the components like they're not I don't know how to explain this. Um, they look horrible.
Testing Live Site and Functionality
All right, so here we are on the live site and we have it. Hey, I mean, it looks good. It's fast. It worked. Well, does it work? Let's go ahead and find that out.
Fixing Clipboard Copy for Component Export
I'm going to copy that code and I'm going to send it to AppGen and let it know to do something similar with other Vibe coding tools that has worked in the past for me. So, I'm going to grab this code now.I'm going to go back to AppGen and then I'm going to paste it in.
Adding Descriptions, Tags, and UI Enhancements
Okay, now the component copying and pasting is working. One thing I want to do is under the title and above the copy button, I want to show like a truncated three line component description, which we do have in the CMS.
Final Thoughts and Production Recommendations
Honestly, the agent level of things in Web Flow Appgen, I will say I'm super happy with. Is it as good as something like Claude Code?
Written by
Julian Galluzzo
Content Writer