Publishing Library speed varies enormously

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Thanks, wrote an email.

Are there best practices on how to split elements across different library files ? The fact that moving components from file to file is a bit scary and makes it so that you need to do quite some proper planning, and I’m not sure I understand the constraints.

I think this can help:

@h_v_b Hi! I am having also issues publishing a library.

It is a library that can be used by three people at the same time - and it has few variants. However the time that takes publishing which could be even more than 10mins…
I am wondering if you found a solution for a quicker work-flow?

Thanks,
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If you haven’t yet, you definitely need to report such issues to support: Submit a request – Figma

I’ve been in touch with support.

Recent updates made the publishing faster.

We had also built our library so there were light + dark variants of each component. Removing this option made it all work better.
We plan on using Theemer to build the dark designs. It would be nice to have a native way of dealing with color themes though.

This gets to some fundamental; flaws with Figma. You need to split up your libraries and since theres no good way to migrate components so you have to really commit to the system. But then as the libraries become interlinked (think global library → individual feature library → layouts and explorations) it creates a ton of pushing/pulling just to accomplish little changes in the system. That alone is very annoying, but couple that with degraded performance (generally with Figma over time omho but also as libraries naturally grow) its becoming maddening and creating tons of unecessary work and slowing my workflow significantly.

This is an insane feature that needs a big fix. Publishing Icon libraries is ridiculously slow.

Any updates why it takes so much time? I just had to wait more than 30 minutes to publish 35 changes. It’s painful.

Publishing updates to a library is way too slow. What’s worse is that the process pauses when I switch tabs/windows, so I have stop doing everything and move my mouse on the tab every few minutes to make sure the process continues.

That’s two problems the Figma team should really fix before working on any new features. Collaborative design library management is a key feature that needs to be stellar in Figma.

Yes, the time taken to publish a library (especially when you have to link through from foundations → components → pages can really slow you down.

@David_Habibi Does the problem occur in both web browser and Figma app? If only web browser, I’d be inclined to use the app

Same issue here.
Publishing icon library with /12000 take more than 15minutes.

Number of total icon is 2000

Hello, thank you for bringing this to our attention! I understand that it can be frustrating when publishing takes some time.

For large library files, publishing components in smaller batches rather than all at once may be beneficial in this situation.

Additionally, if you are aware of components nested within other components, please consider publishing these first. If there are any large variant sets, please publish them separately before any components they may be nested in.

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