emilsjolander

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Figma launches Code Connect for your design system(figma.com)
16 points by emilsjolander 2y ago|1 comments
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Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp(figma.com)
226 points by emilsjolander 3y ago|44 comments
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Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode(figma.com)
131 points by emilsjolander 3y ago|62 comments
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Why roles are not rules(figma.com)
3 points by emilsjolander 3y ago|0 comments
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by emilsjolander 3y ago
Thanks Raphael <3
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by emilsjolander 3y ago
I would love to see this as well! The APIs are live so give it a shot and tell us about any API feedback you have
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by emilsjolander 3y ago
Kinda! It will auto-detect icons in a design, highlight them at the top level, and allow you to import it into your VS Code workspace :)
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by emilsjolander 3y ago
The team is aware and looking into it, thanks for letting us know!
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by emilsjolander 3y ago
Emil from Figma here! We have made a ton of improvements to the generated CSS code, and while we still sometimes provide absolute positioning we now separate it from the styling & flexbox code that you might actually want to pull into y
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by emilsjolander 3y ago
Hey all! Emil here from the Figma team that brought you Dev Mode and Figma for VS Code today! Really interested to hear what you think and also here to answer your questions. We are super excited to invest more into developers in the future
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Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode(figma.com)
549 points by emilsjolander 3y ago|231 comments
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How to effectively use design tokens(visly.app)
3 points by emilsjolander 6y ago|0 comments
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React state for real-time apps(state.visly.app)
3 points by emilsjolander 6y ago|0 comments
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We decided to roll our own state management library(visly.app)
7 points by emilsjolander 6y ago|0 comments
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Designing for Incremental Adoption(visly.app)
2 points by emilsjolander 6y ago|0 comments
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Interface Builder for React(twitter.com)
2 points by emilsjolander 6y ago|0 comments
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by emilsjolander 6y ago
OP here. Totally agree passing arbitrary styles down in props is not a great solution and makes to incredibly hard to reason about components. We defined explicitly using typescript the styles which can be set from the parent which makes it
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by emilsjolander 6y ago
Correct :) But it generally is and I didn't wan't to go all too deep
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Layout-Isolated Components(visly.app)
67 points by emilsjolander 6y ago|34 comments
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#NoCode is the new code(visly.app)
1 points by emilsjolander 7y ago|0 comments
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Designing for Keyboard Accessibility(visly.app)
5 points by emilsjolander 7y ago|0 comments
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by emilsjolander 7y ago
Hey! I'm actually in the process of writing up a high level overview of Flexbox and how it works. Won't cover all aspects but would make it easier to understand hopefully. Can't promise when I'll post it but hopefully so
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by emilsjolander 7y ago
Somethings become very complicated in constraint based systems and they are often much slower in my experience than more special purpose layout systems. That said i'm not against constraint systems either, they just both have their pla
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by emilsjolander 7y ago
I would love to help talk through how to start and the process i used for the flexbox implementation :) start a PR / Issue and we can discuss :)
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by emilsjolander 7y ago
Just to be clear, we are not working on it. However it is something I would like to start looking into sometime soon :) This is a huge area for contributions as I myself am not a grid expert (as apposed to having worked on flexbox engines p
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by emilsjolander 7y ago
Super exciting. Interested to see how we can help.
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by emilsjolander 7y ago
Stretch doesn't really enable any new kind of layouts that yoga doesn't but it fixes some fundamental problems in Yoga where Yoga was not compatible with the web implementations. Long term goal of Stretch is to support multiple la
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by emilsjolander 7y ago
Hey there! Author of both Yoga and Stretch. I built stretch after leaving facebook because of some fundamental flaws in Yoga which made it not 100% compatible with web browsers. Also I wanted something written in a modern language that was
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by emilsjolander 7y ago
Actually it uses webdriver to generate the tests so while we only commit the chrome tests (for simplicity) it is easy enough to run the other browsers locally as long as they support webdriver (which most/all do).
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by emilsjolander 7y ago
haha yes. Edited

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