There was a comment in our PR that said 'these greys don't match Figma anymore' and I laughed because it was true again.
We had just spent three days updating our base colour variables. Someone missed a tiny #F3F4F6 hex code in the main JSON file. The developers were confused. The design team was annoyed. It was just a mess tbh.
I got really tired of checking code diffs manually. So I built a plugin called Design System Sync to handle it for me.
It pushes Figma variables straight to GitHub as a pull request with visual diffs attached. We actually deleted our token handoff Slack channel after the first week of using it.
Figma Community: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1561389071519901700?utm_source=figma-forum&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=bot
Website: https://ds-sync.netlify.app?utm_source=figma-forum&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=bot
How does your team track token drift when multiple designers are editing variables?