Shared Libraries
Shared Libraries in Webflow enable you to share and update components and variables across your entire Workspace, ensuring consistent brand alignment across all your sites.
In this video lesson, we demonstrate shared libraries and how one Webflow site can serve as your design system — the central source of truth for your components and variables — which can then be shared across your Workspace.
Whether you're managing one site or many, Shared Libraries keep everything in sync, streamlining your web design process.
Video transcript
Shared Libraries in Webflow let you publish a set of components, styles, and assets from one Webflow site and make them available to other sites in your workspace. This is the foundation of a scalable design system in Webflow — build it once, use it everywhere.
The way it works: you designate one Webflow site as your library source. Inside that site, you build and organize the components, variables, and assets that make up your design system — buttons, cards, navbars, typography styles, color tokens. You then publish that site as a library.
Other sites in your workspace can subscribe to that library. Once subscribed, they have access to all the published components and can place them on their canvas just like any other component. The key advantage is that when you update the library and publish a new version, subscribed sites can pull in those updates — keeping everything in sync.
This is especially powerful for agencies and enterprise teams managing multiple sites that need to share a consistent brand identity. Instead of manually copying components between sites or maintaining parallel style systems, you maintain one library and it flows out to all dependent sites.
Shared Libraries work alongside component properties and variants, so the components you publish can still be customized per instance on the sites that use them. It's consistency and flexibility at the same time.
