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Onlook sounds interesting as someone who had lined up using https://webflow.com/devlink as a solution for allowing our web dev to continue doing static content development in our new web app.

If I were to ask: why use Onlook over Devlink what would your answer be?

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I think DevLink is great and it's a step in the right direction.

However, you're still locking into a WebFlow project. You can export a DevLink component out and then migrate it back in. You also have to instrument the weblink component.

With Onlook, there's no new environment. Your code is just running in localhost in your project. No import export and no extra code just to develop a new component.

Thanks for the answer. Ofc for my use case, the web dev is very keen to stay locked into Webflow. Hopefully I will get some time to do a bit more of a deep dive into Onlook.

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