figma-codegen

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figma-codegen

description

Generate framework-aware code from a Figma design. Reads the project's stack profile and emits code matching the existing framework (React/Vue/Svelte/Next/etc.) and styling (Tailwind/CSS/CSS-in-JS), reusing existing components and design tokens instead of regenerating from scratch. Triggers whenever the user wants a Figma design turned into code — e.g. 'code this design', 'implement this frame', 'build this screen/component', 'turn this Figma into React/Vue', 'convert this design to code' — or whenever a Figma URL or the current Figma selection appears alongside a coding request. Works for full screens, single sections, or one component.

figma-codegen

Turn a Figma selection into code that looks like the rest of the project: reuse the components and tokens that already exist, only build what's genuinely missing. The grounded tools do the heavy lifting so you are not guessing from a screenshot. This file is the router; deep detail lives in references/ — load a reference when its step is in play.

When to use

• The user pastes a Figma URL/selection and asks for code ("code this", "build this component").
• The user wants to extend an existing component to match a Figma frame.

Workflow

Run the grounded tools against the selection, then generate — trust them over the rendered image.

1. get_design_context (detail full, dedupeComponents: true) → the structural tree with tokens resolved to names (Primary/500, spacing/4), styles deduped into globalVars, and each instance's mainComponent / componentProperties. This is the layout + binding source of truth. Keep dedupeComponents: true and don't depth-limit a subtree you'll build from. → How to read the tree, the per-node fidelity catalog (effects, per-side borders, stroke align, per-corner radius, blend, masks, gradients, image-fit, auto-layout/grid, aspect-ratio, scroll/sticky, stack & stroke-space), Dev Mode annotations as ground truth, and grounding a page too big for one call: references/grounding.md.

2. component_map → every Figma component grouped to a local code component with a status (high / medium / low / unmapped), candidate.filePath, and matchedProps.

   • high / medium: reuse that component (import from candidate.filePath), don't regenerate. Never invent a component name component_map didn't report.
   • candidate.ambiguousWith (a capped list of { name, filePath }): the Figma name matched two or more code components nearly equally and the join couldn't confidently pick — a verify-me pick, not a confident reuse (the analogue of token_map's ambiguousWith). Check which of the winning candidate + these runner-ups is the right component for this context before importing (a wrong reuse is a silent visual bug), then record the confirmed one in the map file so the next run is certain. Absent when the pick was unambiguous.
   • Wire each entry's instances[].props (resolved variant / boolean / text values) onto the reused component — one element per instance, with its own props.
   • candidate.unmatchedProps: Figma axes the component has no prop for (a leading icon, a required flag, an active state) → surface as component-extension TODOs, never fake them with ad-hoc markup.
   • unmapped: build it new in the project's style. For a repeated unmapped component (instanceCount > 1), build from its first instance's subtree; if that came back deduped/truncated, drill get_design_context on instances[0].nodeId once — don't rebuild a repeated component by eye.
   • When you're emitting a component's own definition (its prop types, not just rendering it), get_component_api on the component/instance returns the full property API — every VARIANT option and each BOOLEAN/TEXT/INSTANCE_SWAP prop with its default — so the prop space is grounded, not inferred from the instances you happened to see.

3. token_map → every Figma variable joined to a project token with status + ref + matchedBy. A document's shared paint styles (single solid color styles — the token mechanism of pre-variables files) join the same way, marked source: 'style'.

   • mapped: reference candidate.ref (bg-primary-500, var(--color-primary-500)) — never the raw hex/px get_design_context resolved. matchedBy: ['name'] on a colour (value drifted): use it but flag the mismatch.
   • candidate.ambiguousWith (several project tokens share that exact value and the name couldn't split them): a capped, verify-me pick — choose the semantically right sibling for the context (or keep the value and flag the gap), never treat it as a confirmed reuse.
   • On a document with few or no variables (most real-world files), get_design_context's own projectTokens map is the fallback: any raw color in the payload that exactly equals a project token's value is annotated there ({ "#6266F0": { ref, name, matchedBy: ["value"] } }). Before hardcoding a hex, look it up and emit the ref when it fits the context semantically. matchedBy: ["value"] marks the entry as name-blind value-equality evidence — a hypothesis to verify, not a resolved binding: an entry with candidates lists same-value tokens to choose between by meaning, a semantically wrong token is worse than the raw value (keep the raw value and note the gap instead), and a bound Figma variable always outranks a raw-value match.
   • framework-builtin (a built-in scale step of the project's utility framework — Tailwind or UnoCSS — e.g. spacing/4, line-height/7, weight/Bold): carries builtin: { scale, step } — compose the utility (p-4/gap-4, leading-7, font-bold), not an arbitrary p-[16px]. This is not a gap.
   • from (a SCSS variable): the ref does not resolve on its own. The file you write must import the declaring file, and from is repo-relative while Sass resolves @use against the file — so re-resolve it from where you are writing: from , becomes , never the repo-relative path verbatim. keeps the ref as given; the project's own style may namespace it instead ( makes into ). Emitting the ref without the import is a , not a style nit.

4. Export the assets grounding can't carry — logos, photos, icons have no pixels and otherwise render as grey blocks. save_image_fills for IMAGE-fill nodes (the original asset, not a clipped re-render), icon_map first for icons (reuse curated .svgs), get_screenshot only for the composited look. → Full asset/icon/svg/colour-contract workflow: references/assets-and-icons.md.

Then emit code in the detected stack (the profile comes back on component_map / token_map; you do not call analyze_project yourself): compose the reused components, wrap unmapped pieces, and apply token references for colour/spacing/radius/typography.

Keep code in sync as the design changes

Codegen is rarely one-shot — the design keeps moving. To make the second pass an incremental edit instead of a regeneration:

• After you generate, design_diff on the section/component nodeId saves a baseline (its get_design_context) under .figwright/snapshots/. Committing that file lets teammates share the baseline; the tool never touches git.
• When asked to re-sync ("the design changed, update the component"), design_diff the same nodeId again: it returns the per-node, per-property delta — added / removed / changed nodes with resolved values (a fill, a padding, a text string, a token rebind), each with a readable path (Card / Header / Title). Edit only the code those nodes map to; don't regenerate the screen. Ground each changed value the usual way (it's a get_design_context slice), then design_diff with update: true to accept the new design as the baseline.
• Scope it by the same nodeId unit you coded from. no-changes means the design is untouched since the baseline — nothing to do.

Record verified mappings (so the next run reuses, not re-guesses)

The joins re-derive from scratch every run. A mapping you confirmed — reused a component and it rendered right, resolved an ambiguous colour to the semantically correct token — is worth recording so the next run treats it as ground truth instead of re-guessing. Two append-only map files, each read back by its join as highest authority:

• docs/figma-component-map.md — rows | FigmaName | code/path | (or FigmaName -> path). component_map then returns that component as source: 'map-file', confidence 1.

• docs/figma-token-map.md — rows | FigmaName | ref |. token_map returns it as matchedBy: ['map-file'], confidence 1. The ref is what you'd emit — a utility (bg-primary-500), a var(--color-primary-500), or the bare token name.

• A recorded row OVERRIDES the fuzzy join on every future run — so record proof, not a pick. The gate is your own verify step (§ Responsive & verify): only after you rendered the result and it matched the Figma node do you record the mapping you proved. A wrong row doesn't fail loudly — it silently mis-maps that component/token in every future generation until a human notices, which is worse than no record at all. If you're not certain, don't record it; a re-guess next run is recoverable, a confidently-wrong recorded row is not.

• Record only the mappings the join was unsure of — a low/medium component match you confirmed, an unmapped component you built (record its new file), or a token that came back ambiguousWith / matchedBy: ['value'] / unmapped and you resolved by meaning. Skip the already-high deterministic matches; they re-derive correctly and a row for them is just noise.

• These files are committed project docs — treat a row like a line of code you're asserting is correct, not a scratch note. One figma name → one target per row; keep them reviewable.

• Keep the files healthy. When component_map / token_map report staleOverrides (a recorded target that no longer resolves — the file/token was renamed or deleted), the join has already degraded to the fuzzy result; fix that row to the new target or delete it.

Responsive & verify

• Responsive by default — root is w-full, never the artboard's fixed width; ground breakpoints from the file's other-width frames. → references/responsive.md.
• Verify visually before you call it done — render with the project's toolchain, screenshot at the design's viewport, diff against the Figma node, fix at the source. → references/verify.md.

Motion (animation)

When get_design_context (full detail) tags a node with a motion summary — applied animation-style presets, animated property fields, a timeline duration — carry it into the project's animation mechanism (CSS @keyframes / transition, Framer Motion, GSAP, Vue <transition>) instead of emitting a static component. get_node_motion returns the full keyframe detail when the summary isn't enough. Dropping a frame's animation is a fidelity miss, the same class as dropping a shadow. → references/motion.md.

Rules

• Ground every section — never eyeball a value off the screenshot. Every px size, colour, font-size, radius, and spacing comes from get_design_context, for every section. The screenshot is visual intent only; guessing "the easy sections" is the cardinal miss. On a page too big to ground at once, scope by section nodeId — never depth-cap the whole page, never retry an oversized call.
• Reuse beats regenerate. A high/medium component_map candidate must be imported and used.
• Reference tokens, not literals. Emit a mapped variable's ref; reserve raw values for unmapped gaps, and surface those gaps rather than burying them.
• Carry every visual property, don't drop fidelity. Effects, per-side borders + strokeAlign, per-corner radius, blend mode, masks, gradients, image scaleMode, and auto-layout/grid spacing are all in the context — translate each (the catalog is in references/grounding.md). Dropping any is a grounding miss, not a simplification.
• Export visual assets, don't fake them. A grey box or a hand-typed wordmark is a miss.
• Match the project, not a house style. Mirror the existing import style, file layout, and naming.
• Spell class names in full; don't assemble them from &. In a language whose & concatenates (SCSS / Sass / Less / Stylus / postcss-nested) .card { &__title {} } compiles to .card__title — a name that exists only after compilation, so the class the markup carries appears nowhere in the source and adjusting one rule means searching a fragment like __title and reading every hit. Declare it flat at the top level instead. profile.styling.classNaming (on component_map / token_map) reports the project's own habit and the project wins: ampersand → write &__title; flat or absent → write flat. → references/stylesheets.md for the descendant-selector trap that looks like the fix and isn't, and what & is still the right tool for.
• Render and verify before you call it done. (See .)