MCP Figma to Code

Transform Figma designs into pixel-perfect React + Tailwind components using the Model Context Protocol

Features • Quick Start • Documentation • Contributing

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📸 Dashboard Interface

Modern dashboard built with shadcn/ui - featuring real-time analytics, test management, and MCP status monitoring

Related MCP server: Figma MCP Server

⚠️ Project Status

MVP in Active Development - This tool works great for most designs, but some edge cases are still being refined.

✅ What Works

• Complex Figma layouts with automatic chunking

• Gradients, shadows, blend modes, stroke alignment

• Design token extraction (colors, fonts, spacing)

• Visual validation with Puppeteer

• Interactive dashboard with shadcn/ui components

• Real-time MCP connection monitoring

🔧 Roadmap

• Component variants support

• Animation & interaction states

• Advanced component library mapping

• Better handling of deeply nested components

Contributions welcome! ⭐ Star the repo • 🐛 Report bugs • 💡 Suggest features • 🔨 Submit PRs

🌟 Features

🎯 Pixel-Perfect Conversion

• Visual Fidelity - Automated validation ensures code matches Figma design exactly

• Smart Chunking - Handles designs of any size by splitting into manageable pieces

• 11 AST Transforms - Specialized Babel transforms optimize generated code

• Advanced Graphics - Full support for gradients, shadows, blend modes, custom shapes

• Design Tokens - Automatic CSS variables for colors, spacing, typography

🚀 Dual Output Modes

Both versions generated automatically via CLI --clean flag or dashboard.

📊 Modern Dashboard (shadcn/ui)

New Architecture:

• Built with shadcn/ui + Radix UI primitives

• Dark/Light mode with system preference detection

• i18n support (EN/FR) with language switcher

• Sidebar navigation with collapsible menu

• Charts & Analytics - Timeline, KPIs, test statistics

Pages:

• Dashboard - KPIs, charts, recent activity

• Analyze - Launch new Figma analyses with real-time logs

• Export Figma - Grid/List view with pagination, sorting, filtering

• Export Figma Detail - 4-tab interface (Preview, Code, Report, Technical)

Features:

• Responsive preview with slider (320px → 1920px)

• Syntax-highlighted code viewer

• Visual fidelity report (Figma vs Web)

• Real-time API usage tracking

• MCP connection status indicator

🔧 Developer Experience

• MCP Protocol - Direct Figma Desktop integration (no API keys)

• Docker Support - One-command setup with hot reload

• TypeScript - Full type safety across codebase

• Modular Architecture - Features organized by domain

📱 Responsive Merge (Multi-Screen Fusion)

Combine 3 Figma screens (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile) into a single responsive component:

• Intelligent Merging - Detects common components across breakpoints

• Pure CSS Media Queries - No framework dependencies, works everywhere

• Conflict Detection - Identifies and resolves className conflicts

• Modular Output - Generates Page.tsx + Subcomponents/ structure

• Puck Integration - Visual editor-ready components

• Visual Reports - Side-by-side comparison across breakpoints

Process:

1. Export 3 Figma screens (Desktop 1440px, Tablet 960px, Mobile 420px)

2. Use dashboard to create a responsive merge

3. Get a single responsive component with media queries

4. Visual editor (Puck) for easy customization

For details: See Responsive Merge Guide

Simple Form With Visible Comamand Line

Grid list of all exported Code

View list of all exported Code

Detailled exported page with responsive merge preview

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

Installation (Docker)

# 1. Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/vincegx/Figma-to-Code.git
cd Figma-to-Code

# 2. Start Docker (dependencies install automatically inside container)
docker-compose up --build

# 3. Open dashboard
# http://localhost:5173

That's it! 🎉 The dashboard is now running.

For Developers (Optional)

If you want IDE support (IntelliSense, linting):

# Install dependencies locally (optional - for IDE only)
npm install

# Note: Chromium is NOT downloaded (configured in .npmrc)
# The app MUST run in Docker for full functionality (MCP + Puppeteer)

Verify MCP Connection

# Check MCP server is accessible
curl http://localhost:3845/mcp

# Dashboard should show: 🟢 MCP Connected

Your First Analysis

1. Ensure Figma Desktop is running

2. Open dashboard at http://localhost:5173

3. Navigate to Analyze page

4. Paste your Figma URL:

   https://www.figma.com/design/FILE_ID?node-id=X-Y

5. Click "Launch Export"

6. Watch real-time logs in the modal

7. View results in the Export Figma page

Reprocessing Exports (No MCP Calls)

Already have an export but need to regenerate files? Use the reprocess command:

# Find your export ID
ls src/generated/export_figma/
# Example: node-8132-3793-1763118767

# Reprocess with Tailwind version only
./cli/figma-reprocess node-8132-3793-1763118767

# Reprocess with both Tailwind + Clean versions
./cli/figma-reprocess node-8132-3793-1763118767 --clean

What it does:

• Re-runs AST transformations (Phase 2)

• Recaptures web screenshot (Phase 3)

• Regenerates reports and dist package (Phase 4)

• Uses existing Component.tsx (no MCP calls = faster)

Use cases:

• Modified transform configuration and want to re-apply

• Need clean version but forgot --clean flag initially

• Screenshot failed and want to retry

• Testing transform changes during development

📖 Documentation

Comprehensive guides available in the /docs folder:

Quick Links

Architecture:

• 4-Phase Pipeline

• Component Structure

• MCP Integration

Development:

• Adding Transforms

• Testing Strategy

• Docker Setup

Usage:

• CLI Commands

• Reprocessing Exports - Regenerate files without MCP calls

• API Endpoints

• Configuration

💡 How It Works

4-Phase Pipeline

Phase 1: EXTRACTION (MCP)
├─ Connect to Figma Desktop (port 3845)
├─ Extract metadata.xml (hierarchy)
├─ Extract parent-wrapper.tsx
├─ Extract chunks (1s delay between calls)
└─ Save design tokens, screenshot

Phase 2: PROCESSING (AST)
├─ Organize images (Figma names)
├─ Process each chunk:
│  ├─ Parse to AST
│  ├─ Apply 11 transforms (priority 10-100)
│  └─ Extract CSS
├─ Consolidate chunks → Component-fixed.tsx
├─ Merge CSS → Component-fixed.css
├─ Generate clean version → Component-clean.tsx/css
├─ Optimize CSS/TSX → Component-optimized.tsx/css (sync-optimizer.js)
└─ Split components → components/*.tsx/css (if --split-components)

Phase 3: VALIDATION (Visual)
├─ Launch Puppeteer
├─ Render at exact dimensions
└─ Capture web-render.png

Phase 4: OUTPUT (Reports)
├─ metadata.json (dashboard)
├─ analysis.md (technical)
└─ report.html (visual comparison)

Responsive Merge Pipeline

Multi-Screen Fusion - Combines 3 Figma exports into one responsive component:

Phase 1: DETECTION & VALIDATION
├─ Validate 3 exports have modular/ directory
├─ Detect common components across breakpoints
├─ Extract component order from Desktop metadata.xml
└─ Extract helper functions from Desktop

Phase 2: COMPONENT MERGING (Responsive AST)
├─ Parse Desktop, Tablet, Mobile TSX → AST
├─ Run 7 responsive transforms (priority 10-70):
│  ├─ Detect missing elements
│  ├─ Normalize className formatting
│  ├─ Detect className conflicts
│  ├─ Merge Desktop-first (base + overrides)
│  ├─ Add horizontal scroll
│  ├─ Reset conflicting properties
│  └─ Inject visibility classes
├─ Inject helper functions if needed
└─ Fix image paths (./img/ → ../img/)

Phase 3: CSS MERGING
├─ Desktop styles (baseline, no media query)
├─ Tablet overrides (@media max-width: 960px)
├─ Mobile overrides (@media max-width: 420px)
└─ Compile responsive classes to pure CSS

Phase 4: PAGE GENERATION
├─ Merge Page structure from 3 Component-clean.tsx
├─ Replace <div data-name> with <ComponentName />
├─ Generate Page.tsx + Page.css
├─ Generate Puck components (visual editor)
└─ Create visual report + technical analysis

Output: responsive-merger-{timestamp}/ with Page.tsx, Subcomponents/, puck/, and reports.

For details: See Responsive Merge Guide

Key Concepts

Adaptive Processing: Two modes automatically selected based on design complexity:

• Simple Mode - Direct processing for small, valid designs (4 MCP calls)

• Chunk Mode - Split processing for large/complex designs (5+N MCP calls)

Single-Pass AST: Transforms sorted by priority (10→100), all execute in one traversal for performance.

Dual Output: -fixed uses Tailwind utilities, -clean uses pure CSS classes.

Visual Validation: Puppeteer captures web render at exact Figma dimensions for pixel-perfect comparison.

Responsive Merge (Multi-Screen):

Three key strategies power the responsive merge system:

• Desktop-First Approach - Desktop layout serves as baseline, Tablet/Mobile become progressive overrides via media queries

• Component Matching - Automatically detects common components across breakpoints by name (e.g., "Header" present in Desktop, Tablet, Mobile)

• Conflict Resolution - Uses data-name attributes and positional matching to identify corresponding elements, then merges classNames intelligently

• Media Query Generation - Calculates CSS differences between breakpoints, generates optimized @media rules (Desktop → Tablet @960px → Mobile @420px)

• Helper Injection - Extracts shared utilities (like formatCurrency(), icon components) from Desktop and auto-injects where needed

• Pure CSS Output - Compiles responsive classes (max-md:w-80) to pure CSS, zero dependencies

• Puck Integration - Visual editor for drag-and-drop customization post-merge

Example workflow:

Desktop (1440px) → Export with --split-components
Tablet (960px)   → Export with --split-components  } → Responsive Merge
Mobile (420px)   → Export with --split-components

Result: Page.tsx + Subcomponents/ with media queries

For more details: See Architecture Guide and Responsive Merge Guide

📦 Output Structure

Single-Screen Export

Each analysis creates a folder in src/generated/export_figma/:

node-{id}-{timestamp}/
├── Component-fixed.tsx          # Tailwind version
├── Component-fixed.css          # Consolidated CSS
├── Component-clean.tsx          # Pure CSS version (if --clean)
├── Component-clean.css          # Production CSS (if --clean)
├── chunks-fixed/                # Processed chunks
│   ├── Header.tsx
│   └── Header.css
├── img/                         # Organized images
├── metadata.json                # Dashboard metadata
├── analysis.md                  # Technical report
├── report.html                  # Visual comparison
├── figma-render.png             # Reference screenshot
└── web-render.png               # Validation screenshot

Responsive Merge (Multi-Screen)

Each responsive merge creates a folder in src/generated/responsive-screens/:

responsive-merger-{timestamp}/
├── Page.tsx                      # Main page component
├── Page.css                      # Consolidated CSS with media queries
├── Subcomponents/                # Modular responsive components
│   ├── Header.tsx                # Desktop-first with responsive classes
│   ├── Header.css                # Media queries: tablet/mobile
│   ├── Hero.tsx
│   ├── Hero.css
│   ├── Footer.tsx
│   └── Footer.css
├── img/                          # Images (from Desktop export)
│   ├── logo.png
│   └── hero-bg.jpg
├── puck/                         # Puck visual editor
│   ├── components/               # Puck-wrapped components
│   │   ├── Header.tsx
│   │   ├── Hero.tsx
│   │   └── Footer.tsx
│   ├── config.tsx                # Puck configuration
│   └── data.json                 # Initial Puck data
├── responsive-metadata.json      # Merge stats + transformation details
├── responsive-analysis.md        # Technical analysis report
└── responsive-report.html        # Visual comparison (Desktop/Tablet/Mobile)

Key files:

• Page.tsx - Main page importing all subcomponents

• Subcomponents/*.tsx - Modular components with responsive classNames

• *.css - Pure CSS with media queries (no Tailwind dependencies)

• puck/ - Visual editor for drag-and-drop customization

🔧 Configuration

Environment Variables

# Puppeteer
PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=/usr/bin/chromium

# MCP Server (default values)
MCP_SERVER_HOST=host.docker.internal
MCP_SERVER_PORT=3845

# API Server
PORT=3000

Transform Configuration

Enable/disable transforms in scripts/config.js:

export const defaultConfig = {
  'font-detection': { enabled: true },
  'auto-layout': { enabled: true },
  'ast-cleaning': { enabled: true },
  // ... 8 more transforms
}

Docker Ports

# docker-compose.yml
ports:
  - "5173:5173"  # Dashboard + API

🐛 Troubleshooting

MCP Not Connected?

# 1. Verify Figma Desktop is running
# 2. Check MCP server
curl http://localhost:3845/mcp

# 3. Check from Docker
docker exec mcp-figma-v1 curl http://host.docker.internal:3845/mcp

Images Not Appearing?

# Re-organize images
docker exec mcp-figma-v1 node scripts/post-processing/organize-images.js \
  src/generated/export_figma/node-{id}

Need to Regenerate Files?

# Reprocess existing export (no MCP calls)
./cli/figma-reprocess node-{id}-{timestamp}

# With clean version
./cli/figma-reprocess node-{id}-{timestamp} --clean

Component Won't Load?

# Check for syntax errors
docker exec mcp-figma-v1 npm run lint

# Check browser console (F12)

For comprehensive troubleshooting: See Troubleshooting Guide

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Here's how to get started:

Quick Contribution Workflow

# 1. Fork & clone
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/Figma-to-Code.git

# 2. Create feature branch
git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature

# 3. Make changes & test
npm run lint
npm run build
docker-compose up --build

# 4. Test with real Figma designs
./cli/figma-analyze "https://www.figma.com/design/..."

# 5. Commit & push
git commit -m "feat: add amazing feature"
git push origin feature/amazing-feature

# 6. Open Pull Request

Contribution Areas

• 🐛 Bug Fixes - Fix edge cases, improve stability

• ✨ Features - Add new transforms, improve pipeline

• 📚 Documentation - Improve guides, add examples

• 🎨 UI/UX - Enhance dashboard components

• 🧪 Testing - Add tests, validate edge cases

For detailed guidelines: See Development Guide

📚 Resources

Project Links

• GitHub Repository

• Issues

• Discussions

External Documentation

• Model Context Protocol - MCP specification

• Figma MCP Server - Figma Desktop integration

• shadcn/ui - UI component library

• Babel AST - AST parsing docs

• Tailwind CSS - Utility classes reference

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

MIT License - Copyright (c) 2025 MCP Figma to Code Contributors

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Anthropic - Model Context Protocol & Claude

• Figma - Design tool & MCP server implementation

• shadcn - Beautiful UI component library

• React Team - React 19

• Tailwind Labs - Tailwind CSS

• All Contributors - Thank you! 🎉

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