feat: Export selection as a Design Bundle (JSON + assets) by AvetosDesign · Pull Request #263 · bernaferrari/FigmaToCode · GitHub

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feat: export selection as a Design Bundle (JSON + assets)

Summary

Adds a new export mode alongside the existing HTML / Tailwind / Flutter / SwiftUI backends: serialize the resolved node tree for the current selection into a target-neutral design-bundle.json, plus a raster/vector assets/ folder, packaged as a zip.

Unlike the other four export modes, this one isn't a finished code target you'd copy into a project — it's an intermediate format meant to be consumed by downstream tooling. WordPress is the motivating downstream use case (a separate plugin/CLI reads this bundle and turns it into a WordPress theme), but that consumer isn't part of this PR — this change only adds the generic export.

What's included

packages/backend/src/designBundle/ — builds the bundle from the resolved node tree (designBundleTree/designBundleMain), extracted text styles (designBundleTextStyles), exported raster/vector assets (designBundleAssets), and zips the result (designBundleZip).
packages/types/src/types.ts — DesignBundle* schema types, documented with TSDoc.
apps/plugin/plugin-src/code.ts — handles the export-design-bundle message from the UI and returns the generated zip.
apps/plugin/ui-src/App.tsx, packages/plugin-ui/src/PluginUI.tsx — wires an "Export Design Bundle" button into the plugin UI's top toolbar (after the framework tabs, before "About"), independent of whichever framework tab is currently selected.
packages/backend/src/altNodes/jsonNodeConversion.ts — two small supporting fixes surfaced while building the serializer:
- inlined GROUP children now get layoutPositioning: "ABSOLUTE" so their original arrangement survives losing their GROUP parent
- a live Plugin API layoutPositioning read now overrides the REST API v1 snapshot when the snapshot didn't carry it
README.md — a new Design Bundle row in the "Output targets" table (flagged as an intermediate format, not a finished code target), a short "Design Bundle export" section describing the zip layout and multi-selection behavior, and a packages/backend/src/designBundle entry in "Repository structure." Field-level schema detail is left to the DesignBundle* TSDoc comments rather than duplicated in prose, matching how the rest of the README already defers to source.

Notes for reviewers

Selection handling: each top-level selected layer becomes its own designs[] entry in the bundle — multi-selection "just works" via the existing nodesToJSON conversion path, no special-casing needed.
All code comments were swept so the diff reads standalone, with no assumption that a reviewer has access to project-internal docs.
Verified locally: pnpm build, pnpm lint, and pnpm test all pass clean.
Licensing: GPL-3.0, already compatible with this project's use — not a new consideration introduced by this PR.

Test plan

pnpm install --frozen-lockfile && pnpm build && pnpm lint && pnpm test (matches this repo's PR CI workflow)
Select a single top-level layer in Figma, export Design Bundle, confirm design-bundle.json + assets/ in the resulting zip
Select multiple top-level layers, confirm one designs[] entry per selection
Spot-check a layer containing an inlined GROUP to confirm child positions match the original layout

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New Features
- Added Design Bundle export for selected designs as a downloadable ZIP containing design data, styles, text metadata, and assets.
- Supports multi-layer designs, images, vectors, gradients, effects, text styles, and component details.
- Added export progress indicators, error reporting, and warnings in the plugin interface.
- Added documentation describing the Design Bundle format and export target.
Bug Fixes
- Preserved positioning when grouped elements are expanded during export.
- Improved handling of missing, unsupported, or failed asset and text-style exports.

Adds a new export mode alongside the existing HTML/Tailwind/Flutter/ SwiftUI backends: serialize the resolved node tree for the current selection into a target-neutral design-bundle.json, plus a raster/vector assets folder, packaged as a zip. Unlike the other four, this is not a finished code target — it's an intermediate format meant to be consumed by downstream tooling. - packages/backend/src/designBundle/: builds the bundle from the resolved node tree (designBundleTree/Main), extracted text styles (designBundleTextStyles), exported raster/vector assets (designBundleAssets), and zips the result (designBundleZip). - packages/types/src/types.ts: DesignBundle* schema types. - apps/plugin/plugin-src/code.ts: handles the export-design-bundle message from the UI and returns the generated zip. - apps/plugin/ui-src/App.tsx, packages/plugin-ui/src/PluginUI.tsx: wires an "Export Design Bundle" button into the plugin UI's top toolbar (framework tabs, then this button, then About last), independent of whichever framework tab happens to be selected. - packages/backend/src/altNodes/jsonNodeConversion.ts: two supporting fixes surfaced while building the bundle serializer — inlined GROUP children now get layoutPositioning: "ABSOLUTE" so their original arrangement survives losing their GROUP parent, and a live-Plugin-API layoutPositioning read overrides the REST API v1 snapshot when the snapshot didn't carry it.

Adds a Design Bundle row to the "Output targets" table (with a caveat that it's an intermediate format, not finished code), a short new "Design Bundle export" section in the same register as "How conversion works" covering the zip layout, multi-selection behavior, and where to export it from, and a "Repository structure" entry for packages/backend/src/designBundle. Field-level schema detail is left to the DesignBundle* TSDoc comments in packages/types/src/types.ts rather than duplicated here, matching how the rest of the README defers detail to the source.

- Drop the useless ?? {} fallback in the gradient stop color spread — spreading undefined/null in an object literal is already a no-op, so the fallback guarded against nothing (no-useless-fallback-in-spread). - Remove a stale eslint-disable-next-line comment on ConvertedNode that oxlint (what this project actually lints with) never flagged in the first place.

… comments Strips citations to this project's internal decision log (D-numbers), Phase/Stage pipeline vocabulary, and a broken reference to a doc path that doesn't exist in this repo from every comment touched by the Design Bundle export change. Comments now explain the 'why' inline, standalone, without assuming a reader has access to project-internal docs.

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packages/backend/src/altNodes/jsonNodeConversion.ts
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packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleTree.ts
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This change adds Design Bundle export support. It defines the bundle schema, converts selected Figma nodes, exports assets and text styles, creates a ZIP archive, and connects the export flow to the plugin UI.

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Design Bundle export

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bundle contracts and layout data packages/types/src/types.ts, packages/backend/src/altNodes/jsonNodeConversion.ts	Adds the Design Bundle schema and message types. Preserves layout positioning when groups are inlined or exported.
Design tree and style conversion packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleTree.ts, packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleTextStyles.ts, packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleUtils.ts	Converts nodes, styles, layouts, text segments, component data, and deduplicated assets into Design Bundle data. Resolves text styles and encodes UTF-8 text.
Bundle assembly and packaging packages/backend/src/designBundle/*, packages/backend/src/index.ts	Builds bundle metadata, exports raster and vector assets, removes failed asset references, collects warnings, creates the ZIP archive, and exposes buildDesignBundle.
Plugin export flow and UI apps/plugin/plugin-src/code.ts, apps/plugin/ui-src/App.tsx, packages/plugin-ui/src/PluginUI.tsx, README.md	Adds guarded export requests, progress state, ZIP downloads, error and warning display, toolbar controls, and Design Bundle documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7ce92

The export adds shared layout-conversion behavior and bundle naming logic, but unresolved cases can alter existing generated output and mislabel exported designs. The PR should not merge until these correctness risks are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PluginUI
  participant App
  participant PluginCode
  participant buildDesignBundle
  participant Figma
  participant ZIP
  PluginUI->>App: Request Design Bundle export
  App->>PluginCode: Send export-design-bundle
  PluginCode->>buildDesignBundle: Pass selection and settings
  buildDesignBundle->>Figma: Read nodes, styles, and assets
  buildDesignBundle->>ZIP: Create design-bundle.json and asset files
  ZIP-->>PluginCode: Return ZIP bytes and metadata
  PluginCode-->>App: Send ZIP, counts, and warnings
  App-->>PluginUI: Download ZIP and show export status

Possibly related PRs

bernaferrari/FigmaToCode#260: Both changes modify node conversion behavior in jsonNodeConversion.ts.

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packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleAssets.ts (1)
27-27: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider bounded concurrency for asset export.

The loop awaits each exportAsync call in sequence. For a selection with many icons, total export time grows linearly. A small concurrency limit (for example 4 in-flight exports) shortens the export without the memory cost of exporting everything at once. Keep the sequential form if Figma's export throughput is the real bottleneck.
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In `@packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleAssets.ts` at line 27, Update
the asset export loop in the design-bundle asset export flow to run exportAsync
calls with a small bounded concurrency limit, such as four in-flight exports,
rather than awaiting every asset strictly sequentially. Preserve result ordering
and existing error behavior, and avoid launching all exports at once.
packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleTree.ts (1)
379-412: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse the segment uniqueId that the conversion step already assigned.

jsonNodeConversion.ts Lines 471-478 already write a uniqueId onto each styled text segment, in the form {base}_span or {base}_span_01 (1-based, zero-padded). This function discards that value and generates ${uniqueName}_span_${index} (0-based, unpadded). The bundle then exposes ids that no other part of the pipeline uses. Prefer the existing id and keep the generated form as a fallback.
Proposed change
-      uniqueId: `${uniqueName}_span_${index}`,
+      uniqueId: segment.uniqueId ?? `${uniqueName}_span_${index}`,
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In `@packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleTree.ts` around lines 379 -
412, Update the segment mapping to use the existing segment.uniqueId assigned by
the conversion step, falling back to the current generated identifier only when
it is absent. Preserve the conversion step’s 1-based, zero-padded ID format and
keep the change scoped to the uniqueId field in this map.
packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleUtils.ts (1)
6-16: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use fflate.strToU8 for the fallback.

fflate is already bundled for zipSync, and strToU8 includes a UTF-8 fallback when TextEncoder is unavailable. This removes the unescape dependency without adding a package or duplicating the encoder. Avoid the proposed code-point loop unless it handles lone surrogates consistently with TextEncoder.
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In `@packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleUtils.ts` around lines 6 - 16,
Update encodeUtf8Text to use fflate’s strToU8 as the fallback when TextEncoder
is unavailable, reusing the existing fflate dependency already used by zipSync.
Remove the unescape/encodeURIComponent implementation and preserve TextEncoder
behavior for environments where it exists.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/backend/src/altNodes/jsonNodeConversion.ts`:
- Around line 344-364: Avoid assigning layoutPositioning = "ABSOLUTE" to inlined
GROUP children in the shared processNodePair conversion path, since it changes
HTML, Tailwind, Flutter, SwiftUI, and Compose output; instead introduce a
bundle-specific inlined-from-GROUP marker and update designBundleTree.ts's
isAbsoluteInAutoLayout logic to use it, preserving existing layoutPositioning
behavior for other targets.

In `@packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleAssets.ts`:
- Around line 40-93: Update the asset export flow around the image and node
export failure paths to report failed asset identifiers, and have
buildDesignBundle remove those assets from the manifest before serialization.
Ensure successful exports remain unchanged and no assetRef or backgroundAssetRef
points to a file absent from the archive.

In `@packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleMain.ts`:
- Around line 49-76: Update the designs mapping around buildDesignNode to match
each converted node with its original selection entry by node ID, not array
index. Use the matched original node’s raw name when available, otherwise retain
the existing node.name/root.uniqueName fallback, while preserving the top-level
GROUP mismatch handling.

Apply the same fix in `@README.md` at line 58: The documented selection-to-design
behavior is affected by the same identity mismatch.

In `@packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleTree.ts`:
- Around line 356-377: Update the fallback span construction in the
segments.length === 0 branch to set lineHeight from node.style.lineHeightPx
divided by node.style.fontSize when both values are available, matching the
ratio used by the segmented path; otherwise retain the existing zero fallback.

In `@packages/types/src/types.ts`:
- Around line 361-380: Add an explicit raster export scale field to the
DesignBundleAsset interface, representing the 2x scale used by the asset export
configuration, while keeping width and height as logical node dimensions. Ensure
the field is optional or otherwise compatible with vector assets, and use the
existing export-scale contract rather than deriving pixel dimensions downstream.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleAssets.ts`:
- Line 27: Update the asset export loop in the design-bundle asset export flow
to run exportAsync calls with a small bounded concurrency limit, such as four
in-flight exports, rather than awaiting every asset strictly sequentially.
Preserve result ordering and existing error behavior, and avoid launching all
exports at once.

In `@packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleTree.ts`:
- Around line 379-412: Update the segment mapping to use the existing
segment.uniqueId assigned by the conversion step, falling back to the current
generated identifier only when it is absent. Preserve the conversion step’s
1-based, zero-padded ID format and keep the change scoped to the uniqueId field
in this map.

In `@packages/backend/src/designBundle/designBundleUtils.ts`:
- Around line 6-16: Update encodeUtf8Text to use fflate’s strToU8 as the
fallback when TextEncoder is unavailable, reusing the existing fflate dependency
already used by zipSync. Remove the unescape/encodeURIComponent implementation
and preserve TextEncoder behavior for environments where it exists.

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Really nice. I'll merge soon. Thanks!

Before I review, is this visible on UI or only on backend? I didn't understand that part.

Before I review, is this visible on UI or only on backend? I didn't understand that part.

There should be a small "package" button in the top-right of the FigmaToCode UI (see screenshot). Clicking it will process your selection (in Figma), and then prompt you for the filename and location to save the JSON bundle.

Right now there is a download project button, maybe we should add it there? Not sure, asking you what are your thoughts. I think it is vite/nextjs for now. Maybe it is on main already.
(do you see the download project button? hopefully it is not in a weird branch)

*A little embarrassed* I didn't notice that there were additional formats in there. I mistakenly thought that was just to download the file being displayed in the window.
This functionality is certainly similar to a "download project".

I was testing so it is not in prod yet. Let me know what you think.

@bernaferrari: This is your project, and you've done a fantastic job with it, so I don't want to step on any toes here.

I really like the idea of keeping the downloaded targets together. So putting vite, node.js, and this Design Bundle/JSON target together makes a lot of sense to me. I think it's the right move.

My only thought on the matter, and where I would make a suggestion, is that the current location of the download button is a little confusing. With it located in the Code section, next to the "Copy" button, it miscommunicates its purpose. In my mind, it is more intuitive to have it at the top of the page, next to the other "Targets" (HTML, Tailwind, ...).

So I'm completely happy to integrate with the existing menu. What are your thoughts on relocating the button for that menu? I'm happy to update my PR in whichever direction you'd like to go.

The issue is that the button depends on the language, it can be a web project, Tailwind project, flutter, etc. If it is on top, it will look like it is the same for all frameworks. Do you agree?

Ah. I see now. I didn't realize that what the Download button was grabbing depended on the tab selection. I thought they were just additional targets. My mistake. With that variability, I think the Download button's placement and function makes sense as it is.

The JSON modification I am presenting here is intended to be an intermediary format (the target is undefined), so it is orthogonal to the existing tabs. There are two paths forward that make sense to me:

Add the "Package download" button at the top, as I placed it initially. There isn't a "preview" or options for the JSON download, and the tab selection / options have no bearing on the download contents. This is where the code is at today (this PR).
Add a "JSON Bundle" tab as a peer to the HTML, Tailwind, etc. tabs, and have the download button trigger the bundle download. Under this option, the JSON could be placed in the Code window, and maybe have an "Include assets" checkbox under the "Styling options". The JSON can get quite lengthy, though. One of the simple design files I'm testing with generates 20k lines of JSON, and 30 MB of assets. I expect a complex design to exceed those numbers significantly. We'd probably have to truncate the previewed JSON, and just rely on the Copy button to grab the whole file (minus assets).

What thoughts do you have?

I think it makes more sense to add what you want in settings (like debug/help, I don't know) because it is unlikely most people will need it. Do you agree? Right now you can get the page, but you can't get the content from other pages because of a figma permission.

Perhaps I should pull back this PR and revise the structure of my code. Now that I understand the organization of your program better, I may be able to create a more compliant fit.

Closing this PR to revise the code.

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