Framer Production Checklist

Prerequisites

A launch owner, approver, staging evidence with fictional content, domain/DNS owner, access policy, and rollback operator.

Instructions

Attach evidence or an owner decision to every control, validate publishing/domain/integration/privacy behavior in a canary, observe aggregate health, and stop promotion on threshold or access failures.

Error Handling

Pause publishing on domain, access, visitor-data, or integration failures; restore the prior configuration and verify the rollback before resolving the incident.

Examples

Publish a fictional staging page, revoke a test collaborator, and simulate a failed domain check. Promote only after the owner records that access and rollback behaved as expected.

Overview

Checklist for deploying Framer plugins, code components, and Server API integrations to production.

Checklist

Plugin Production

• Plugin tested in Framer editor with real data
• No console.log calls remaining
• Error states handled (network failures, API errors)
• Loading states shown during async operations
• Plugin UI responsive at configured width/height
• All property controls have default values

Code Components

• export default on all components
• addPropertyControls on all components
• Responsive at all viewport sizes
• No hardcoded data (use property controls or CMS)
• Error boundaries for data-fetching components
• Performance tested with large datasets

Server API (CMS Sync)

• API key in secrets vault (not .env)
• CMS collection schema matches source data
• Incremental sync (not full replace every run)
• Error handling with notifications
• Publish step tested
• Rate limiting for batch operations

Site Publishing

• Custom domain configured
• SEO meta tags on all pages
• CMS collections populated
• Code components rendering correctly in preview
• Code overrides working in published site

Output

• Verified plugin, components, and CMS sync
• Production API key secured
• Site published and accessible

Resources

• Framer Publishing
• Custom Domains

Next Steps

For version upgrades, see framer-upgrade-migration.