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Framer is an awesome prototyping tool (I use it), but I would've wanted to know up-front that "export to React" comes with two huge caveats:

- There's nothing stopping you from using it in production, but it isn't designed for this. What you create does not even use real layout, does not use normal HTML elements, etc.: see https://www.framer.com/support/using-framer/creating-real-ap....

- Inevitably in any real-world project, various parts of the UI need to be changed/overridden from code. But you cannot iterate on the design once ejected, which is a significant limitation for any product that requires iteration.

For building prototypes, it works great, and it makes user-testing a "happy path" nice and breezy.

That said, would love to see/hear more about the projects you've shipped to production!

(Disclaimer: I work on https://www.plasmic.app.)



I'm testing and absolutely loving Plasmic right now. Sent you a dm


Thanks for the kind words, that's great to hear!

We are in a very fortunate position financially (multiple years of runway), and I am YZ. :) We also have companies big and small relying on Plasmic in production. Lastly, you fully own the code that you generate, and can always eject with clean React.


Agreed on both points, the export is definitely a hackish way of using Framer.

I'll be glad to share the project over DM, feel free to shoot me an email :)

Also, Plasmic looks really interesting, I'm looking forward to try it out.




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