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Framer CMS vs hand-coding: when native wins for indie sites
Shiply Team
7 min
I've shipped landing pages both ways. For most indie sites, reaching for code first is over-engineering.
Where native wins
Blog, changelog, /uses — anything repeatable — is faster in the CMS, stays responsive by default, and needs zero deploy pipeline.
Where code still helps
Custom interactive widgets or heavy data logic. But even then, wrap it once and expose clean controls so the rest stays editable.
The rule
Use native until it genuinely can't do the job. Your future self — editing copy at midnight — will thank you.
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