The best builders experiment, tinker, and tweak. Now, when you want to make a change to how your project looks, like its layout, design, or copy, you can create a draft and explore different versions before changing your live app.
Before, all of your edits happened directly in your project. If you changed your mind about something you had to hit revert, and if you were collaborating with other people, they had to wait their turn or remix the project, making it hard to consolidate edits smoothly.
Introducing drafts
A draft is a copy of your project with its own chat and preview, where you and your team can explore different versions of the same project in parallel. You can easily switch between your drafts and your project to compare, and changes are only applied to your live app if you accept the draft and hit publish.
With drafts, you can:
Bring your people in
A draft serves as a playground for collaborators to explore different ideas. Let a teammate, a client, or the person who writes your copy create one to make their changes in a real project, not in a doc full of comments. Your live app and its data stay exactly as they are, and you still decide what goes live, so more hands never means less control.
Explore multiple directions at once
Create more than one draft and try a different idea in each. Switch between them and keep the one that works, without gambling with your live version.
What you can do today
Drafts work on any project, whether or not it has a database. For this first release, they cover changes to your app's front end, so anything that changes your database's structure or your login setup still happens in your project's chat. Examples of what you can explore in drafts right now:
- New colors, fonts, or a fresh layout without breaking your live site
- Headlines, subheaders, or calls-to-action—keep the version that performs best
- New imagery, illustrations, or video content
- Scroll animations, an image carousel, or a sticky nav bar
- Promo or announcement bar
- Sharper copy everywhere, from button labels to empty states to your 404 page
It's worth noting that currently drafts work against your published application's database, and we're working on expanding the types of changes drafts support.
How it works
Just open a project, click its name at the top of the editor, and hit 'New draft'. To edit the draft, just start prompting. You can create as many drafts as you like.
When you're happy with one, hit accept and the draft's changes are applied to your project. Hit publish to make it live.
Changed your mind? You can still revert, or just delete your draft and create a new one. Want another go? Create a new draft.
This is the first version of drafts, so tell us what you think. What works, what's missing, and what would you change?
