This page is for contributors. If you’re looking to use Create Figma Plugin, go to the official docs.

Create Figma Plugin

A comprehensive toolkit for developing plugins for Figma and FigJam

• Quick start
• Plugin basics
• Configuration
• UI
• Utilities
• Recipes
• Storybook
• Changelog

Contributing

Pre-requisites

• Node.js – v14
• Yarn – v1

Building the project locally

$ git clone https://github.com/yuanqing/create-figma-plugin
$ cd create-figma-plugin
$ git checkout --track origin/next
$ yarn install

Active development on the next release occurs on the

next

next

Testing changes on an existing plugin

First, build the entire Create Figma Plugin project:

$ yarn run build

Then, create symlinks to the local copy of the project in your existing Figma/FigJam plugin (eg.

my-plugin

$ ls -a
create-figma-plugin  my-plugin
$ sh create-figma-plugin/scripts/symlink.sh create-figma-plugin my-plugin

Finally, build your plugin:

$ cd my-plugin
$ yarn run build