I’m trying to find a plugin for exporting variables. I was very happy with Variables2css because it has alias fallbacks. But it won’t run at all if the file has extended collections. I then went down a wormhole trying to find another plugin, but all of the ones I tried (i must have tried like 6 of them) return “0 variables” or otherwise empty for the extended collections.
I wanted to use Figma’s native export but it only outputs JSON, not CSS.
Extended Collections still seem to have limited support across many Figma plugins, so you're not alone in running into this issue. It would be great if more plugin developers updated their tools to fully support the latest Variables API. At Dev Technosys, we've seen similar compatibility challenges when working with evolving design systems, and in cases like this, a custom export script using the Figma Plugin API or converting the native JSON output into CSS can be a practical workaround until broader plugin support becomes available. Hopefully, the community has found a plugin that fully supports Extended Collections.
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