This article gives you a glimpse of what has been coming along to solve for the design to development world, and how you can use new-age technologies for Figma to Code especially for popular frameworks like Tailwind

The difference between designers and devs

The fierce contrast between designers and developers is quite apparent. You have these different personas synergising together to get quality products out to market, providing services from food to medicines, delivered on time. Some companies, like Slack, Apple or Stripe, do it extremely well.

And yet, some teams find it extremely hard to do it. Deploying a strong product UI necessitates a strong set of tools. However, transitioning between design libraries, the codebase, and other project management tools can lead to inefficiencies, particularly when components and style names do not align with the code or when the team fails to track and document tasks.

Understanding the design to code space

Creating a User Interface is the first and foremost step that takes place while building a website. Multiple factors like responsiveness, easy navigation, color contrast, pleasing to the eyes, etc, are kept in mind while designing the user interface.

When it comes to designing a UI, Figma is the first and most popular tool that comes to mind. Figma comes with tons of customization that helps to build endless UI designs following the designer's creativity.

After the design is ready, a developer's role comes into play. The developers convert the whole Figma design frontend code. But the problem is it literally takes hours to even convert a simple basic design into code. It’s a very hectic task for a developer to generate code that gives the same result as of created design.

Thus reducing the developer's productivity and that's where Dualite comes to rescue us.

Using Dualite Alpha

Alpha brings in a unique approach by importing Figma meta-data like colors, fonts etc through a Figma oAuth system, and understanding the structural by taking a screenshot of the option.

Connecting your Figma account

Start by clicking on the Figma icon

You'll be redirected to an oAuth2 screen(the same screen that I mentioned above to get the meta data in an encrypted manner). Make sure the oAuth account (singhvirohan01@gmail.com in my case) is the same where your Figma file is in. This is usually an issue that we've seen a lot of customers face

Selecting the Figma design URL

On a successful login, you'll be redirected to this screen.

Make sure you select the Figma design URL, preferably a Frame, Component or Instance:

Open the Figma design file

• Select the Frame you want to convert

• Right Click on the Frame

• Select Copy/Paste as

• Select Copy link to selection

• Paste the copied URL in Alpha the field above and click on "Import"

You can confirm the same as Alpha will show you. Click on "Continue with this Design" once you're sure for the same. Once clicked, you'll be able to see the "Figma green tick" as a confirmation at the chat bot

Choosing Tailwind and prompting

You can then simply choose React + Tailwind from the "Framework" drop-down and type in the prompt "Build this landing page based off the Figma file"

Landing page here is a reference, can describe anything else i.e dashboard, website etc.

Conclusion

Dualite is more than capable of automating frontend tasks, such as Figma to Tailwind. Join the waitlist now at https://www.dualite.dev/waitlist