Shortcut to publish library and automatically update files

Need this desperately, right now I spend SO MUCH time on updating multiple files we have it’s just ridiculous 🫠

FIGMA, ARE YOU SERIOUS?
STILL NO LIB AUTO-UPDATE OPTION?

Still, in 2024, there’s no library auto-update option, after 12 years, since 2012.

Dear @Figma , dear @FigmaInc, dear Dylan Field @zoink, dear Evan Wallace @Evan_Wallet.

You need to include a library auto-updating option ASAP. There are only 2 main needs and expectations that users have from the premium account:

1. Unlimited files
2. Library cross-sharing among files

THEREFORE, A library auto-update IS A CRUCIAL FEATURE, A MUST HAVE, PRIORITY NUMBER 1 TO IMPLEMENT.

We the boys the designers usually have a main file, with all the core styles and components, which then are cross used throughout other files. It’s extremely annoying to publish the library everytime you make a single change to the main component or style.

Auto-updating should come by default. With the option to turn it off. Yes, make it available only in a Paid subscription.

Yes, you can invite me to help you with UX further on. Figma is a UI/UX design tool and therefore should be at the forefront of UX quality. Such issues as this one are unacceptable for such a loved best product worldwide. 💕

A keyboard shortcut to publishing a library and another one to updating the components in the design file sounds like a good idea.

But the “auto-publish and update in all files” idea is just terrible. Library updates should be something that a designer controls.

Let’s remember that many of us work in setups where some development teams work on designs handed off to them and would NOT want these designs to change on the fly. Designs of a particular feature for the next releases should – this is where a product designer should decide.

Many of us also work in setups with multiple designers. Often, a change in a pattern needs to be aligned with them for the same reason.

So auto-publish-and-update would only work in two scenarios:

• a single designer in the whole organization doing the work before the development starts,
• a perfect setup with full design tokenization and a perfect split between “screens and flows” design and “library design”.

Still absent? 🥲

What I want to know is why can’t I map a Mac keyboard shortcut to “Publish library…” Just let me do that and I’d be good.

Most recent quick publish is opt+3, click, click

I can’t believe this hasn’t been added yet, this workflow is really inconvenient

It’s kind of bananas that auto-publish (or a hotkey) isn’t an option already. Put it behind a warning if you need to, but as a one-person shop this is tedious.

@strwtchr It should be a toggle in the settings then

Wow, still not implemented. Is anyone from the Figma team there? Please pause the FigJam features and put the power into this obvious feature. Not all users work entirely in enterprise teams.

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

This is on our radar, but we don’t have an exact timeline we can provide at this time. We’ll continue to pass your feedback and Votes onto the team for future consideration.