Figma Plugin React Vite
A figma plugin boilerplate, that simplifies building plugins with React + Vite!
Overview
This product is a boilerplate for developing Figma plugins. It is designed to keep logical sides separated while allowing them to share code. The boilerplate includes a solution for efficient communication between logical sides, making use of isolated messages and handlers. It is easy to build and configure with plugin credentials, and it bundles most of the necessary assets and code into a single file. The boilerplate also provides the capability to import SVGs as React components and supports Sass/Scss/Less and modules for styling.
Features
- Logical Sides in Mind: Figma plugins are split into code.js and index.html, and this boilerplate allows the sides to share code which is stored under "./src/common/".
- Intercommunicative: The boilerplate facilitates communication between logical sides by declaring isolated messages and handlers placed under "./src/common/network/messages/".
- Easy to Build: Simply configure the "figma.manifest.ts" config with plugin credentials and use the "npm run build" command to build. The resulting "/dist" folder will be ready for publishing.
- Bundled into One File: The boilerplate is configured to bundle or inline necessary assets and code such as rasterize/vector image asset imports, CSS URL statements, and source code imports, ensuring that multiple linked files are deployable.
- SVG as Component: SVG files can be imported as React components using the "*.svg?component" format. Examples can be found in "/src/ui/app.tsx".
- Sassy: The boilerplate supports Sass/Scss/Less and modules for styling. Templates and examples can be found in "/src/ui/styles/" and "/src/ui/components/Button.module.scss" respectively.
Summary
The Figma plugin boilerplate provides a convenient starting point for developing Figma plugins. It ensures separation and sharing of code between logical sides, simplifies communication between sides, allows for easy building and configuration, bundles necessary assets and code into a single file, enables SVGs to be imported as React components, and supports Sass/Scss/Less and modules for styling. Developers can follow the installation guide to set up their development environment and start coding.
- Figma
Figma is a cloud-based design tool for creating user interfaces, prototypes, and collaboration in real time.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Vite
Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.