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SA5 is the lastest version of Sygnal's Webflow Utilities Library.
The tools here are 100% free, 100% open-source, and 100% designed for Webflow.
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SA5 is divided into a series of individual libraries.
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| SA5 HTML | A huge range of page-modification capabilities | |
| SA5 User Accounts | Get logged in user info to personalize your site and improve user experience. |
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| SA5 Rich Text | Add capabilities to Webflow's Rich Text Block |
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| SA5 Layout | Advanced, dynamic layouts for your Webflow pages |
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| SA5 Forms | Easily replace Webflow's native form handler with your choice of 3rd party handlers like Basin, Zapier, Make, and n8n. |
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| SA5 Modals | Create powerful, consistent modals with full design control and zero interactions | |
| SA5 Hotkeys | Define custom hotkeys to trigger your scripts, page actions and navigation | |
| SA5 URL | Special URL enhancement tools |
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| SA5 Video | Add capabilities to your video elements |
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| SA5 Elements | Control Webflow's elements with code, and receive events when they change |
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| SA5 Format | Format numbers and currencies & dates specially |
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| SA5 Track | Special tracking using cookies and webStorage | |
| SA5 Select Custom | Custom Select element based on Finsweet's attribute of the same name. Adds some dynamic update capabilities |
| Library | Purpose | Features |
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| SA5 Core | Central to SA5, but has a few tricks up its sleeve |
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| SA5 Cache | Handle high-latency tasks such as content-fetching with a built-in caching layer. |
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| SA5 Embeds | Embed external content into your blog posts and pages. |
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| SA5 Social Share | Adds Email as a social share option. Designed to work in conjunction with Finsweet's Social Share component. |
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| SA5 Analytics | Adds some analytics capabilities to your site using attributes. |
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| SA5 Data | Extract CMS data into JS objects from your collection lists, to power your custom code and calculations. |
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| SA5 404 | Improve your 404 pages |
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| SA5 Countup | Animated count up to a set value. Triggers on scroll-into-view | |
| SA5 UI | Special UI components |
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| SA5 Demo | Add special capabilities to your Webflow demo sites, such as links to the correct readonly link page. | |
| SA5 Commerce | Simple commerce solutions for one-off purchases. |
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| SA5 Trigger | Custom trigger items and interactions from text links and buttons. |
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These are libraries we're experimenting with.
Now you can sponsor the development of those features, and they will be added to the library for everyone to use.
| Library | Purpose | Features |
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| SA5 Calc 🧪 | Calculate & sum items | |
| SA5 SEO 🧪 | Some SEO tools |
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| SA5 Fixup 🧪 | Fix a few things in Webflow editor and published sites. | |
| SA5 Logic 🧪 | Add logic capabilities using attributes, for conditional visibility and page structuring |
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| SA5 Effects 🧪 | Experimental effects |
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| SA5 State 🧪 | State management | |
| SA5 Booking 🧪 | Tag trigger elements easily to invoke 3rd party booking systems with the correct service, location, category, and staff member. |
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| SA5 Localization 🧪 | Various localization features | |
| SA5 Detect 🧪 | Detect and manipulate your page depending on how | |
| SA5 Table | Add HTML tables |
{% hint style="info" %} We've also begun including our dev team and roadmap notes in these docs so that they are available for community comment and discussion. You can expand most features for a Future notes document. {% endhint %}
- Share your ideas in SA5's forum.
- If you'd like a specific feature built that you already see on our design board here, you can sponsor a feature. Features marked with
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- Documentation is organized by library
- At the top of most libraries, you'll two important pages-
- 🔍 About this Library, which gives you an overview of the capabilities
- 🚀 Quick Start, which gives you the library code you need
- Within each library the features are grouped separately
- A lot of features have subpages- make sure to click the > to expand those sections
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- 🧪 indicates EXPERIMENTAL items, which are not yet available
- 📝 indicates NOTES, which are primarily for the dev team
▶️ indicates VIDEO TUTORIALS, which we're just beginning to add
The tech changes we've made in v5 open the doors to a lot of new capabilities.
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If you are using v4, none of these changes will affect your current websites.
Since all of our CDN URLs are version-locked, you’ll continue to use the same libraries you are using now until you upgrade to the newer versions, someday, if you want to.
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- We’ve changing from a JavaScript ES6 codebase to TypeScript
- We’ve changed fully from CSS to SASS.
- We’ve eliminating all use of jQuery in the libraries.
- We’ve separated classes through the library into discrete source files
- We’ve bundled the distributed files differently for even greater efficiency
- We've integrated debugging features
We’re excited about the tremendous capabilities the new stack gives us.
If you choose to switch to the upgraded v5 libraries at some point, you’ll see a few minor integration changes;
Javascript <script> elements;
- Will be moved from the before-/body section to the before-/head section of your pages and site-wide code settings.
- The library URLs will change to point at the
/dist/path, rather than the/src/path. - You'll also notice that the
type=moduleis dropped
CSS <link> elements will essentially remain unchanged, and will continue to point to /dist/css/
{% hint style="info" %} All of this is covered in the docs for each feature, and we’ll update the docs as each library is migrated, so that you can upgrade them if you choose to. {% endhint %}
You can simply reference the new libraries with no changes to your custom attributes or existing features- and you’ll still get the enhanced features and performance benefits.
Nope! If you’re happy with things as they are and don’t need any of the new features, you don’t need to change a thing. v4 will continue to run indefinitely.