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Figma Plugin Development Live Reload
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Figma Plugin Development Live Reload

  1. Create a run-plugin.sh somewhere in your project
  2. Copy the code from the run-plugin.sh file in this gist
  3. Install nodemon with yarn add --dev nodemon
  4. Add a script in the scripts property of your package.json replacing PLUGIN_CODE_FOLDER by the path to the folder where your plugin code lives 
    "scripts": {
  "livereload": "nodemon --watch PLUGIN_CODE_FOLDER --exec run-plugin.sh"
 }
  5. Run your livereload task with yarn livereload
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run-plugin.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
osascript <<'EOF'
if application "Figma" is running then
tell application "Figma" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Figma"
keystroke "p" using {command down, option down}
end tell
return "Running"
else
return "Not running"
end if
EOF
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