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, a nice project for creating a human-friendly data structure. However, it's not a full-featured, not maintained, and written in a very unsafe and untyped style.

Probably, you've already tried to write your own integration or use some of the above solutions and faced the same problems as I did.

• 🤯 Multiple different not maintained packages with different APIs
• 🫠 Bad documentation/usage examples or even no documentation at all
• 💀 Terrible flexibility and solution design, you just can't use it in your project because of the different document structure or workflow
• 🙅‍♀️ No type safety, autocomplete, etc.

In other words, there is no really well-designed complex solution for Figma integration.

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, runtypes or something like that)
• etc.

In other words, the holistic high-level well-featured instrument.