Feature: Figma API integration

[nburka]

We'd love to be able to:

• pull meta data about each icon stored in Figma
• possibly export all of the icons and save them in our dir structure + make a ZIP file

Ideally it would run with yarn update-figma-icons or something like that.

There are two options:

1. Make a custom Figma plugin. I've never done this, so I'm not sure how much work it would be.
2. Use the description field and import that. Steven has already proposed a syntax for this second approach (seems like the easier approach)

See Slack conversation

I would suggest that we use that Description field for a verbal description of the icon (like alt text, eg. “Person with lab coat and stethoscope”), and a comma-delimited list of tags in square brackets. So, a description of the doctor_female icon would be something like: Woman with stethoscope [doctor, physician, woman, practitioner]

[nburka]

See API documentation https://www.figma.com/plugin-docs/api/ComponentNode/#description

[dburka]

Note: We should create a tag like dhis2:file_name for every icon that represents a DHIS2 icon. Then we can change the actual filename to be consistent, use hyphens, and be meaningful

[nburka]

I've got a start of this working.

[nburka]

I'm using the https://www.npmjs.com/package/figma-js package, but this might be even better? I'm not that familiar with GraphQL though https://github.com/braposo/figma-graphql