A tool to get you started making Figma plugins with a React UI ¹.

This tool is in currently in beta so please report any bugs or issues 🙏

You'll need to setup both your development environment and add the plugin to Figma in order to get developing your plugin.

To create the project template, run the following command. It will create a new folder in the directory you're running the command from with the project template.

npx @mtmeyer/create-react-figma-plugin

or for Typescript run the following command:

npx @mtmeyer/create-react-figma-plugin --typescript

Follow the prompts in the CLI to generate the project. Then get the development server started.

cd project-name
npm run dev

The development server is now running and the plugin is ready to be added to Figma for development.

Now we will add the plugin to Figma for development. Note that this will not publish the plugin and it will only be visible to you.

1. Open Figma
2. Click on your profile icon dropdown in the top right and select Plugins from the list
3. Scroll down to the In development section and click the plus(+) icon
4. In the Link existing plugin section, click the box to choose your manifest.json file
5. Locate the manifest.json in your newly created project and then select Open
6. Now you will be able to use this plugin within a design file 🎉

@mtmeyer/create-react-figma-plugin comes with the following options:

• --javascript, --js - Create project with vanilla JavaScript
• --typescript, --ts - Create project with TypeScript
• --currDir, --currentDirectory - Creates project in current directory rather than creating a new directory.

¹ Note: I am not affiliated with Figma, I just ❤️ the tool.