Motivation
I've been looking for a stable maintaining Figma API with built-in high-level structures, abstractions, and common features for implementing high-level tools for Figma. But I didn't find anything that would suit me, figma-js and figma-api both are not maintained, low-level API only and depends on the axios library, which is not suitable for me.
Next, I found figma-transformer, nice project for creating a human-friendly data structure, but it's not a full-featured, not maintained, and written in very unsafe and untyped style.
So I decided to create my own Figma API, which will be:
- Powerful CLI solves the most common tasks
- Fully typed consistent Figma API and common helpers
- Convenient high-level Node.js API for working with Figma projects
- Web API based and not depend on specific third-party libraries
- Safe and stable as possible without strict value validation (via
zod,runtypesor something like that) - etc.
In other words, the holistic high-level well-featured instrument.