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Figma to HTML: How to export a Figma design into HTML

Reading Time: 4 minutes You can export a complete HTML code package or get individual component code from your Figma design. See how to convert Figma to HTML here!

Myriam Cohen

April 3, 2024 4 min

Design to code

How to export Tailwind CSS from Figma

Reading Time: 3 minutes This article will show you how to seamlessly export Figma designs into Tailwind CSS using Anima. Anima will map your design properties to Tailwind's base styles. Design attributes, such as colors, spacing, and typography, will be translated into concise Tailwind classes.

Myriam Cohen

September 27, 2023 3 min

Design to code Product Updates

Convert Figma to React & Tailwind Automatically in VSCode

Reading Time: 2 minutes Frontier seamlessly transforms Figma files into React code, perfectly integrating with your existing Tailwind configurations. Frontier meets you where you work, in VS Code.

Yarden Katz

July 10, 2024 2 min

Design to code Product Updates

Figma to HTML Email: Converting Designs to HTML Email Templates with Inline CSS

Reading Time: 3 minutes With Anima’s Figma plugin, you can convert your flex layouts directly into HTML email templates. We’ll do all the hard work of converting those into table layouts with inline CSS. You design freely in Figma, and we’ll do the heavy lifting of translating your vision into adaptive, pixel-perfect emails.

Haim Ben Chimol

April 25, 2024 3 min

Code Design to code Product Updates

Anima’s VSCode extension: Figma to React is now in your favorite IDE

Reading Time: 2 minutes A big step toward becoming developers’ sidekick is Anima’s new VSCode extension, now available in beta. With the first beta, you’ll be able to turn Figma into code right inside Visual Studio Code.

Avishay Cohen

March 19, 2024 2 min

Design to code

Figma to React: How to get clean React code in Figma

Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima instantly converts Figma components into React components inside Figma. Here’s a step-by-step guide.

Nick Meyer

April 1, 2024 2 min

Breakpoints - Figma to responsive website

Design to code

Breakpoints with Anima: From Figma design to Responsive Website

Reading Time: 3 minutes Anima easily converts Figma designs into responsive HTML and CSS code, by letting users set breakpoints in a Figma project.

Myriam Cohen

April 15, 2024 3 min

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GenAI Figma to Code: 6 Examples of how to use Anima’s new AI Code Customization

Reading Time: 5 minutes Anima's latest innovation, GenAI code personalization within Figma, is game-changing for front-end developers. This feature introduces a layer of customization that speaks directly to the developer's style and technical requirements. Let’s see how Anima’s GenAI helps you add code conventions, styles, behaviors, and animations.

Myriam Cohen

February 20, 2024 5 min

Design to code

Introducing Codegen 2.0: reusable React components from Figma

Reading Time: 2 minutes This week, Anima released a powerful code generation engine that turns Figma components into clean React components. It maintains each component’s design, structure, layout, and style, and enables overrides in the code without altering the original design.

Paul Boulescu

January 24, 2023 2 min

Design to code

Convert any Figma design into React with Styled Components

Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima will turn any Figma design into React code with Typescript or Javascript, and Styled Components.

Myriam Cohen

November 5, 2023 2 min

Design to code

How to export Figma to Vue

Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re trying to convert Figma to Vue without writing the code from scratch, this article is for you. We’ll show you how to export your Figma designs as Vue in a few easy steps using Anima. Anima will turn each design property into Vue code (Vue2 and Vue3) with Typescript or Javascript.

Myriam Cohen

October 16, 2023 2 min

Design to code

Figma to React: building and publishing an app to Netlify

Reading Time: 3 minutes Follow these steps to build a React app with Figma + Anima, then launch it on Netlify using Anima's generated code. Give it a try, and go live in a fraction of the time.

Avishay Cohen

May 24, 2022 3 min

Design to code

Introducing Scooby: a free regression and fidelity testing tool

Reading Time: 4 minutes Scooby compares front-end code to its source design, ensuring better fidelity with fewer iterations.

Federico Terzi

March 29, 2023 4 min

Design to code

How I built a design system in Figma using MUI components

Reading Time: 4 minutes Imagine joining a startup as the sole designer and delivering a new product without a design system. It’s every product designer’s nightmare. I didn’t have the time or resources to create one from scratch, so I adapted someone else’s. 💡

Satjaleen Madan

November 15, 2022 4 min

Design to code

How to build a Shopify store with a custom UI using Figma + Anima

Reading Time: 5 minutes We built a live eCommerce app in Figma using Anima's React Component Library. Then we turned it into a Shopify template and deployed it on Netlify using Anima's generated code. Here's how.

Ignacio Díaz

August 2, 2022 5 min

Design to code

Build a blog with Anima’s React code + Contentful’s headless CMS

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this tutorial, we'll build a completely functional blog by connecting Anima’s generated frontend code to Contentful's headless CMS for dynamic content.

Elizabeth Alcalá

August 7, 2022 4 min

Design to code

How to build a React app fast with Figma + Anima + Strapi.io

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this tutorial, we redesigned SVBs banking dashboard using Anima's open source Component Library for Figma, then connected our data using Strapi's headless CMS. Now you can launch fullstack React apps at lightning speed using the same approach.