Figma doesn’t have a native way to export variables for devs, so I rely on 3rd party plugins. I even wrote some myself to get around this basic missing feature.
Plugins that I used in the past have now stopped working. I’ve also tried some new ones. None of them work.
Plugins load, but pressing buttons to fetch variables and export variables don’t work
Even some plugins that I developed myself stopped working. When I run them, I now get console errors that weren’t there before.
Why Figma doesn’t have a native way to export variables is beyond me. Too busy with Figpals, I guess.
We have a deadline to hit, and now I need to manually export hundreds of variables for my devs. Very much not ideal. Is this a known issue?
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Hey
While exporting variables is on our team’s radar for the future, we don’t have an exact timeline to provide on when this will be implemented.
Right now, plugins are supported by their creator, so your best option to get your plugins working again is reaching out directly to the Support contact listed on the plugin’s community page.
For example, using this Variables Exporter for Dev Mode plugin, you’ll want to reach out to oltodo@msn.com, which is listed as Support.
While I’m extremely disappointed by the lack of support for long standing features in Figma Design, especially with regards to design systems and prototyping, I do appreciate the prompt response. Unfortunately, my experience with plugin developers is that they don’t respond as fast as you have (again, appreciated!) and we have a deadline to meet. I really do hope the Figma team can recognize that this is a critical piece of the dev handoff workflow, and that reliance on plugins for critical steps in developer handoff creates (in my mind) a huge risk to timelines when situations like this occur. I guess I just need to manually copy and paste individual variables for now.
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