Question

Is it possible to get information about nested instances from the plugin API?

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
February 28, 2024
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I’m looking to get data about nested instances in components for a plugin I’m working on. I’d also be keen to know if there’s a Figma plugin developer community I can join too.

Thanks!

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tank666

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Jason42Author

Thanks @tank666! I’ll try that but I’m not sure I’ll get the info I need from a recursive function over all a component’s children and all their children. I’m specifically looking for nested instances that are available to interact with from the main component, not just child components within a parent component.

tank666

Judging by your screenshot, these are exposed instances.

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Jason42Author

Ahh, that might work… although I was trying to access that information from ComponentNode or ComponentSetNode. I guess I can create an instance, get what I need and delete the instance. Thanks again!

tank666

It is not necessary to create an instance. You can traverse the tree of a component’s children and check the isExposedInstance property on instance nodes.

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