Faithful vs. editable components — which export style to pick
React and Next.js exports come in two styles, chosen at download time. Faithful ships the site's original runtime alongside your pages: animations, hover states and scripted motion keep working exactly as published, but each page is a thin wrapper mounting the original markup — treat it as a pixel-perfect snapshot you deploy, not code you redesign. Editable components converts every page into per-section JSX named after your Framer layers, with shared headers and footers deduplicated into a shared/ folder. That's the export to pick when the goal is to own and evolve the code — the trade is that scripted motion from the original runtime is not carried over.
A good default: download faithful to have a working mirror, and editable components as the codebase you build on. One credit unlocks the format for that extraction permanently, and re-downloads in either style are free.