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lukasoppermann / design-tokens

🎨 Figma plugin to export design tokens to json in an amazon style dictionary compatible format.
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/888356646278934516/Design-Tokens
MIT License
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Tokens as a source for truth rather than figma? #298

Closed JackHowa closed 8 months ago

JackHowa commented 8 months ago

Hi @lukasoppermann ! really appreciate your work on this and the idea. I was curious to know about your recent readme update? https://github.com/lukasoppermann/design-tokens/commit/d653d3a40751767b220b6391b95a11982c0fbc34

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How does it Figma work to ingest tokens? also, how do your maintain your source of truth? in json?

Given the update, I might also recommend archiving this repo.

lukasoppermann commented 8 months ago

Hey @JackHowa

  1. Figma does not allow you to import tokens natively.
  2. Source of truth in JSON, more here: https://github.com/lukasoppermann/design-tokens/discussions/296#discussioncomment-7925778
  3. The plugin is still used and also somewhat maintained. It just gets no major feature updates from me. However, if it works for you now, there is not reason to not use it. Considering this I don't agree. I think archiving is the wrong approach.

Cheers