Design-to-JSON

About this plugin

Design to JSON: A Developer's Bridge

Supercharge your design-to-development workflow with Design to JSON. This plugin inspects your selected Figma layers and recursively exports the entire hierarchy into a clean, structured, and developer-friendly JSON format. Stop manually transcribing design specs and start automating your UI development.

Who Is It For?

This plugin is built primarily for Frontend Developers and UI Engineers who need to translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect code. It's also a powerful tool for Design System Maintainers and anyone looking to automate asset extraction or design analysis.

Key Features:

•Recursive Tree Traversal: It doesn't just scan the top layer. The plugin dives deep into all nested frames, groups, and components to give you a complete hierarchical view.

•Absolute Coordinates for Layout: Outputs the global coordinates and dimensions (absoluteRenderBounds) for every element, which is exactly what you need for CSS positioning, eliminating guesswork with relative positions.

•Comprehensive Property Extraction: Captures a wide range of properties crucial for development:

oGeometry: Position, size, rotation.

oStyling: Fills, strokes, and effects with RGBA color values (0-255).

oTypography: Font family, style, size, line height, letter spacing, and alignment.

oAuto Layout: Direction, padding, and item spacing.

oComponent Info: Details about instances and their main components.

•Simple & Clean UI: A straightforward interface to generate and copy the JSON with a single click.

How to Use:

1.Select one or more elements on your Figma canvas.

2.Run the "Design to JSON" plugin.

3.Click the "Generate JSON" button.

4.The JSON output will appear in the text area.

5.Click "Copy to Clipboard" to grab the data and use it in your code.

Best Practices for Your Design File:

To get the most accurate and useful JSON, it's recommended to follow these design practices:

•Name Your Layers: Use descriptive layer names (e.g., "SubmitButton" instead of "Rectangle 128"). These names appear directly in the JSON, making it much more readable.

•Embrace Auto Layout: The plugin is built to understand Auto Layout. Using it for components, buttons, and layouts will provide rich data (padding, spacing, direction) that is directly translatable to Flexbox or similar CSS models.

•Use Components: Structuring your design with components helps maintain a clean hierarchy, which will be reflected in the JSON output. The plugin captures instance information.

•Avoid Unnecessary Grouping: Whenever possible, use Frames with Auto Layout instead of nested groups (Group > Group > Element). This results in a cleaner and more semantic JSON structure.

Limitations & Caveats:

•Mixed Styles in Text: While the plugin recursively finds the properties of individual elements, if a single text node contains multiple styles (e.g., different fonts or colors applied to different words), the Figma API provides summary data. The plugin will note this but cannot separate the mixed styles within that single element.

•Complex Vector Data: This plugin focuses on properties relevant for UI layout and styling. It does not export the raw path data (<path d="...">) of complex vector networks or boolean operations.

•API Boundaries: The plugin can only extract data that is exposed by the official Figma Plugin API.

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This plugin is developed and maintained with love. If you find it useful and it saves you time, you can say thanks by supporting its future development. Every bit of support is hugely appreciated!

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