Figma to React, The Right Way

Turning a Figma design into pixel-perfect, maintainable React is more than eyeballing it. Here is the workflow I use to ship clean, reusable components.

Anyone can drop a design into code that "looks close." The hard part — and what your dev team actually pays for — is code that is pixel-perfect AND maintainable.

My workflow

  1. Audit the design for repeated patterns → components
  2. Set up design tokens (colors, spacing, type) first
  3. Build mobile-first, then scale up
  4. Match spacing to the Figma values exactly
  5. Add motion last, with reduced-motion support
const Button = ({ variant = "primary", ...props }) => (
  <button className={cx("btn", variant)} {...props} />
)

The outcome is a codebase your team can build on for years — not a throwaway one-off.