diff --git a/src/backend/langflow/components/vectorstores/Chroma.py b/src/backend/langflow/components/vectorstores/Chroma.py
index a7f8a200c..4f51b64d9 100644
--- a/src/backend/langflow/components/vectorstores/Chroma.py
+++ b/src/backend/langflow/components/vectorstores/Chroma.py
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ class ChromaComponent(CustomComponent):
         self,
         collection_name: str,
         persist: bool,
+        embedding: Embeddings,
         chroma_server_ssl_enabled: bool,
         persist_directory: Optional[str] = None,
-        embedding: Optional[Embeddings] = None,
         documents: Optional[Document] = None,
         chroma_server_cors_allow_origins: Optional[str] = None,
         chroma_server_host: Optional[str] = None,
diff --git a/src/backend/langflow/interface/types.py b/src/backend/langflow/interface/types.py
index 59bd81555..b6e4250f9 100644
--- a/src/backend/langflow/interface/types.py
+++ b/src/backend/langflow/interface/types.py
@@ -307,9 +307,9 @@ def get_field_properties(extra_field):
 
     if not field_required:
         field_type = extract_type_from_optional(field_type)
-
-    with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
-        field_value = ast.literal_eval(field_value)
+    if field_value is not None:
+        with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
+            field_value = ast.literal_eval(field_value)
     return field_name, field_type, field_value, field_required
 
 
diff --git a/src/backend/langflow/template/frontend_node/base.py b/src/backend/langflow/template/frontend_node/base.py
index 92c748dca..ce1fe79a0 100644
--- a/src/backend/langflow/template/frontend_node/base.py
+++ b/src/backend/langflow/template/frontend_node/base.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ class FieldFormatters(BaseModel):
 
 
 class FrontendNode(BaseModel):
+    format_template: bool = Field(default=True, exclude=True)
     template: Template
     description: Optional[str] = None
     base_classes: List[str]
@@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ class FrontendNode(BaseModel):
     def serialize_model(self, handler):
         result = handler(self)
         if hasattr(self, "template") and hasattr(self.template, "to_dict"):
-            result["template"] = self.template.to_dict(self.format_field)
+            format_func = self.format_field if self.format_template else None
+            result["template"] = self.template.to_dict(format_func)
         name = result.pop("name")
 
         return {name: result}
diff --git a/src/backend/langflow/template/frontend_node/custom_components.py b/src/backend/langflow/template/frontend_node/custom_components.py
index 75019f85e..c9f80beae 100644
--- a/src/backend/langflow/template/frontend_node/custom_components.py
+++ b/src/backend/langflow/template/frontend_node/custom_components.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 from typing import Optional
 
+from pydantic import Field
+
 from langflow.template.field.base import TemplateField
 from langflow.template.frontend_node.base import FrontendNode
 from langflow.template.template.base import Template
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ class Component(CustomComponent):
 
 
 class CustomComponentFrontendNode(FrontendNode):
+    format_template: bool = Field(default=False, exclude=True)
     name: str = "CustomComponent"
     display_name: Optional[str] = "CustomComponent"
     beta: bool = True
diff --git a/src/frontend/src/components/floatComponent/index.tsx b/src/frontend/src/components/floatComponent/index.tsx
index 9b3376499..005ae1252 100644
--- a/src/frontend/src/components/floatComponent/index.tsx
+++ b/src/frontend/src/components/floatComponent/index.tsx
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ export default function FloatComponent({
   const step = rangeSpec?.step ?? 0.1;
   const min = rangeSpec?.min ?? -2;
   const max = rangeSpec?.max ?? 2;
-  console.log("FloatComponent", value, disabled, rangeSpec, editNode);
-  console.log("FloatComponent", step, min, max);
-
   // Clear component state
   useEffect(() => {
     if (disabled) {