Convert your Figma Design to Code

» What is Figma?

  1. Figma is an amazing cloud-based design platform that allows you to create stunning user interfaces, wireframes, prototypes, and so much more.

  2. It’s user-friendly and packed with powerful features.

» Login to Figma Account

  1. Visit figma.com. and sign up for an account. Once you’re signed in, you’ll have access to the Figma Dashboard, where you can start designing and convert your design into code.

  2. Open the project you want to convert.

  3. Once you’re inside your project, you’ll see a canvas where you can create your designs. Figma offers a wide range of design tools like shapes, text, images, and more which you see on the top bar.

» Install locofy Plugin

  1. Right-click on Canvas and you will see the plugin option. Click on it and then click on find more plugins, search for locofy, and install that. After it is installed run it.

  2. next you will see a pop-up that will ask you to sign in to locofy. Complete the process and run the locofy plugin again; now you will see welcome to locofy pop-up.

  3. Create a new project and give your project the name that you want and choose the framework which you want, you can choose between React, Next.js, Gatsby and more. And then select the other code settings like language typescript or javascript, styling like css or tailwind. Choose the one you prefer, and then click on the create button.

  4. Next we also have various steps here that we can follow to practice clean code.

A. Optimize the design.

B. Tag Interactive elements

C. Edit Styling and Layout

D. Add Onclick Action

E. Sync To builder.

  1. After all the above four steps are done, sync the code to locofy builder.

» Download the code

  1. Export the code from locofy builder.

  2. Open the folder in VS code.

  3. Run the command npm i to install all the dependencies mentioned in the package.json file.

npm i
  1. After the dependencies are installed, let’s run the command npm start
npm start

  1. You will have a message that says that this website is running on port 3000.

  2. Open localhost:3000 and you will see the website running.

And That’s it! You’ve successfully learned how to Convert Figma Design to Code.

Thank You and Happy coding!😊

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