Building a Designer Extension

This guide will walk you through the complete setup for creating a Designer Extension. By the end of this guide, we’ll have completed the following steps:

1. Designer Extensions overview
2. Designing a User Interface
3. Interacting with the Webflow Designer
4. Quick Setup with an Example App
5. Publishing and distribution
6. UI Guidelines

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Prerequisites

To successfully follow along with this guide, please ensure your system meets the following requirements:

• Node.js 16.20 or later
• macOS, Windows (including Windows Subsystem for Linux), and Linux are supported
• A Webflow site for development and testing
• A registered Webflow App that's installed to your test site. If you haven't set up an App yet, please follow the Registration and Installation guide.

Tools:

• Terminal
• Code Editor
• Browser

Knowledge of:

• Web Applications
• HTML, CSS
• Javascript / Typescript

Quickstart

Want to jump in right away? Check out our Designer Extensions quickstart guide.