Figma Make constantly resetting state

Hi ​@Andrew_Duna, thanks for reaching out about this! 

This definitely doesn’t sound expected. Has this always been an issue in Figma Make for you, or has this started to happen recently? Is this happening in all your Figma Make files, or just this one file in particular? 

With a few more details, I can have the Figma Make team investigate. 

Hi ​@djv,

This issue occurs intermittently (not consistently), and I’ve noticed it across multiple files over time. Since posting this it has settled down, but it’s been recurring enough that it feels like a pattern.
 

More detail on the behavior I’m seeing:

When I make multiple manual edits in the code, the preview appears to reload incrementally rather than waiting for all changes to complete. For example, if I change the font family to Inter and then update the color to green, the preview will reload once showing only the font change, then reload again later showing the color change. More complex changes results in more reload cycles.

It feels like the preview is attempting to recompile and reload before all edits are finished, then continues to trigger additional reloads on a delay as it detects subsequent changes. During this time, the preview keeps updating in partial states, even after I’ve finished making code changes.

If I stop interacting and wait a few minutes, the behavior eventually stops once the preview fully catches up to the code changes. However, when I make additional updates it starts up again.

Only the preview is reloading (not the entire Figma Make file), but each time it refreshes it also removes focus from whatever I’m currently interacting with, including the Figma Make chat and the code editor, so it can be very disruptive.

In contrast, when this issue is not occurring, the behavior works well for me: I just complete any manual edits and then explicitly click the “Refresh” button to reload the preview once, which gives me control over when the reload happens.

Thanks for the additional context, ​@Andrew_Duna! 

I’ve created ticket #1678020 on your behalf to connect you with our technical quality team. Please reply directly to the team with more details and share edit access to your Make file with support-share@figma.com. If you could also include steps on how to reproduce the behavior, the team can investigate this further with you. 

I have the same issue, the more complex the Make prototype, the more it randomly refreshes regardless of what you are doing. It gets annoying when interacting with the UI and it reloads with a 10-30 second delay of showing the UI again.

This is the ChatGPT response:

Vite-style HMR (hot module replacement) behaves when it’s misconfigured or overly sensitive in a constrained sandbox like Figma Make.
 

Figma Make is doing too many things at once:

1. Live code editing

2. AI-assisted edits

3. Manifest generation

4. Preview sandbox compilation

5. Canvas ↔ code synchronization

And it appears to be using:

• a file-watcher-based trigger

• with no proper debounce

• inside a browser sandbox

I’m experiencing the same issue as ​@Josh22. Super annoying as the app preview is basically unusable. I have to publish the app to test it 😫  

Same issue here. Make testing and demoing prototypes very frustrating

Hey everyone, Celine from Figma here, working closely with Denise. Sorry for the delayed response here and thank you for sharing the extra context!

We’d like our team to take a closer look to your cases and get to the bottom of what’s happening. The best next step is to investigate this directly with the affected file and environment.

Could you please submit a bug report so our Support and Engineering teams can dig in? When you do, it would be really helpful to include:

• A direct link to the Make file

• A short screen recording showing the unexpected reloads

• Whether this happens consistently or only after certain edits

• Your OS and browser/app version

You can submit the report here:  https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
(Click Start a chat, then type “Report a bug”.)

Once submitted, the team will follow up with you directly. Thanks again for flagging this! 🙏🏼

Auto refresh of the figma make ai is a problem during demo session!
Even during building ux solution the preview interface gets frequently reloaded!
This is really irritating specially during a demo session going on.

Earlier it used to refresh only when the application completes working on the prompt  and refresh the the view for updated changes in the ux. Good!

Now it auto refreshes as per it’s own will...Strange !!!

Is there a solution to this new cropped up problem ??

Hey ​@RAHUL W , thanks for flagging this, and sorry you’re running into this!

I’ve merged your post into this thread since it looks related. To help us investigate further, could you please follow the steps I mentioned above to reach out directly to our Support team? (You can submit the report here:  https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
(Click Start a chat, then type “Report a bug”.)

That will allow our teams to take a closer look at what’s happening on your end.

Once you’ve submitted a bug report, feel free to let me know, I’m happy to help escalate it internally. Thanks for your help!

Same here, it tests the patience especially when your demoing to some one from the management or customers they dont wait, please let me know whats the fix