Framer · Sites to ship
Sites already look right on the canvas. Production is different: CMS collections that survive an export, form endpoints that keep working when the editor is closed, custom code that builds from a clean checkout, and a Publish habit that is not the only way the public URL updates. This page puts that ship path on paper so someone else can release a known version from ground you control.
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Review methodologyIn plain words
To-production here means CMS collections, form endpoints, and custom code answer from a host you run. Site-settings secrets rotate into a vault, you can name which export is live, and you know how to undo a bad Publish without living inside the editor. Sites hosting stays useful for design iteration — visitors deserve a ship path that survives a closed laptop.
What living on Framer hosting still hides
That is the right first job. The second job is what visitors feel when the happy path fails — whether you wrote it down or not.
If spam or paid API routes only look blocked on the canvas, someone can still hit them. Production checks forms where they count.
Form and Auth keys parked only in the Sites panel will leak or go stale. Rotate them onto the destination host.
Production answers simple questions: what changed, which export is live, what checks passed, and how to undo.
When uptime matters, a reviewed export or rebuild beats hitting Publish from the canvas alone.
The handoff we actually run
Keep the layouts. Stop relying on Sites hosting to run the site.
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Document schemas and overrides before the first owned publish.
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Fresh values. Named in a vault. Fail closed when missing.
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Second person can release a known tree.
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Browse → CMS page → form. Prior version ready.
How to
Own export, secrets, and publish. First useful ship — not a full exit.
Step 01
CMS edits, custom code, forms, Publish toggles.
Step 02
Lockfiles or static tooling pinned.
Step 03
Mobile and CMS pages on the new origin.
Step 04
Logs tag the release.
Step 05
Document which model production uses.
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It proves Sites, CMS, and breakpoints render. It does not prove you own an exportable tree, can rotate form secrets without every editor opening the project, or can roll back without republishing from the UI.
Collection schemas documented. Custom code builds from a clean checkout. Form webhooks and Auth redirects list only your production domain. Breakpoints re-checked on the destination — not assumed identical to preview chrome.
Use hosted Publish while Sites iteration risk is acceptable — and budget lock-in. Prefer export or rebuild when rollback and second-engineer deploys matter. Document which model production uses so on-call does not discover “only Publish works” during a launch spike.
Run browse → CMS page → form on the custom domain with production secrets. Confirm logs tag a release, forms fail closed when env is wrong, and closing the editor does not stop the destination host.
Bring CMS collections, form paths, and who can Publish today. We put owned ship first — and we leave the canvas for design until evidence says leave.
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