Linking a local CSS file for the plugin UI in HTML

[hoodie0512]

I want to use this UI library which was introduced in Figma’s official tutorial for plugin development.

GitHub - thomas-lowry/figma-plugin-ds: A small lightweight design system for...

I installed this library with NPM.
But I can’t link the CSS file.

Here’s my html code.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="node_modules/figma-plugin-ds/dist/figma-plugin-ds.css">

The path for the href is not wrong, because VS Code can follow the link.
I tried to put the link tag in head tag, but it didn’t work.

Plus, if I use CDN for the CSS like this, it works.

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/thomas-lowry/figma-plugin-ds/dist/figma-plugin-ds.css"
/>

But I don’t want to use this, because of the delay of style adjustment. It makes the UI blink.

What am I doing wrong? I want to link this CSS file in my local!
Thank you.

[tank666]

@hoodie0512,

@Gleb

• Write CSS and JS inside of the HTML file so you don’t have to load them from other files.
• Host and load CSS and JS from the web. Not every hosting would work due to CORS and the plugin having origin set to null. This isn’t a very common way I think.
• Use a bundler to inline all files you want into HTML. This is good for larger plugins where writing CSS and JS directly inside of the HTML file would be difficult. You can use Rollup, Webpack, esbuild and anything else you like.