Introduction
The traditional design-to-development handoff has been a pain point for years. AI-powered tools are now bridging this gap, automatically converting Figma designs into production-ready code while maintaining quality and accessibility.
AI-Powered Figma-to-Code Tools
1. Figma Dev Mode + AI Assistants
// Using Figma API to extract design data
import * as Figma from 'figma-api';
const api = new Figma.Api({ personalAccessToken: process.env.FIGMA_TOKEN });
async function getDesignData(fileId: string, nodeId: string) {
const file = await api.getFile(fileId);
const node = findNode(file.document, nodeId);
return {
type: node.type,
name: node.name,
styles: extractStyles(node),
children: node.children?.map(child => getDesignData(fileId, child.id)),
};
}
function extractStyles(node: any) {
return {
width: node.absoluteBoundingBox?.width,
height: node.absoluteBoundingBox?.height,
backgroundColor: node.fills?.[0]?.color,
borderRadius: node.cornerRadius,
padding: node.paddingLeft, // etc
};
}2. Converting to React Components
function generateReactComponent(designNode: DesignNode): string {
const { name, styles, children } = designNode;
return `
import React from 'react';
export function ${toPascalCase(name)}() {
return (
<div
className={\`${name.toLowerCase()}\`}
style={{
width: '${styles.width}px',
height: '${styles.height}px',
backgroundColor: '${rgbToHex(styles.backgroundColor)}',
borderRadius: '${styles.borderRadius}px',
}}
>
${children?.map(child => generateReactComponent(child)).join('\n ')}
</div>
);
}
`;
}Best Practices for Design-to-Code
1. Naming Conventions
// Good Figma naming
Button/Primary
Button/Secondary
Card/ProductCard
Icon/CheckCircle
// Translates to
<Button variant="primary" />
<Button variant="secondary" />
<ProductCard />
<CheckCircle />2. Auto-Layout to Flexbox
function convertAutoLayout(node: FigmaNode): CSSProperties {
const css: CSSProperties = {
display: 'flex',
flexDirection: node.layoutMode === 'HORIZONTAL' ? 'row' : 'column',
gap: `${node.itemSpacing}px`,
padding: `${node.paddingTop}px ${node.paddingRight}px ${node.paddingBottom}px ${node.paddingLeft}px`,
};
// Alignment
if (node.primaryAxisAlignItems === 'CENTER') {
css.justifyContent = 'center';
}
if (node.counterAxisAlignItems === 'CENTER') {
css.alignItems = 'center';
}
return css;
}3. Design Tokens Integration
// Export design tokens from Figma
const designTokens = {
colors: {
primary: '#0066CC',
secondary: '#00C896',
// ...
},
spacing: {
sm: '8px',
md: '16px',
lg: '24px',
},
typography: {
heading1: {
fontSize: '48px',
fontWeight: 700,
lineHeight: 1.2,
},
},
};
// Use in components
<h1 style={{ ...designTokens.typography.heading1 }}>
Title
</h1>Workflow Integration
// CI/CD pipeline
// .github/workflows/figma-sync.yml
name: Sync Figma Designs
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 0 * * *' # Daily
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
sync:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: Sync Figma to Code
run: npm run figma:sync
- name: Create PR if changes
run: |
if [[ `git status --porcelain` ]]; then
gh pr create --title "Update from Figma" --body "Auto-generated"
fi