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// Figma API - Exporting design tokens to code
// Token extraction from a Figma file with a Node.js script
const axios = require('axios');
const FIGMA_TOKEN = process.env.FIGMA_TOKEN;
const FILE_KEY = 'your-figma-file-key';
async function extractDesignTokens() {
const response = await axios.get(
\`https://api.figma.com/v1/files/\${FILE_KEY}/variables/local\`,
{ headers: { 'X-Figma-Token': FIGMA_TOKEN } }
);
const { variables, variableCollections } = response.data.meta;
// Convert tokens to Swift
const swiftTokens = Object.values(variables)
.filter(v => v.resolvedType === 'COLOR')
.map(variable => {
const value = variable.valuesByMode[Object.keys(variable.valuesByMode)[0]];
const { r, g, b, a } = value;
return \` static let \${variable.name.replace(/[/-]/g, '_').toLowerCase()} = Color(red: \${r.toFixed(3)}, green: \${g.toFixed(3)}, blue: \${b.toFixed(3)}, opacity: \${a.toFixed(3)})\`;
})
.join('\\n');
const swiftFile = \`import SwiftUI
extension Color {
\${swiftTokens}
}\`;
require('fs').writeFileSync('DesignTokens.swift', swiftFile);
console.log('DesignTokens.swift generated!');
}
extractDesignTokens();// Sketch plugin API - Exporting a style library
// Sketch JavaScript API (CocoaScript based)
@import 'sketch/dom';
function exportTextStyles(context) {
const document = sketch.getSelectedDocument();
const textStyles = document.sharedTextStyles;
const swiftCode = textStyles.map(style => {
const { name, style: { fontSize, fontFamily, fontWeight } } = style;
const swiftName = name.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, '_').toLowerCase();
return \` static let \${swiftName} = Font.custom("\${fontFamily}", size: \${fontSize})\`;
}).join('\\n');
const output = \`import SwiftUI
extension Font {
\${swiftCode}
}\`;
// Save to file
const filePath = NSString.pathWithComponents([
NSTemporaryDirectory(),
'DesignSystem.swift'
]);
output.writeToFile_atomically_encoding_error(
filePath, true,
NSUTF8StringEncoding, null
);
sketch.UI.message('DesignSystem.swift generated: ' + filePath);
}
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// The Figma MCP Server gives direct access
// to design data from the code-generation environmentIn 2025, Figma became the industry standard — especially for team collaboration, design-system management, and developer handoff. Choose Sketch only for macOS-locked teams and offline-work requirements. If you haven't switched to Figma yet, now is the right time.
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