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Publish free/community plugins

Offer premium enterprise plugins

Custom internal tools for design teams

Plugins as part of SaaS ecosystem

Consulting or training for plugin development

Expanded node types and document APIs

Enhanced event-driven system

Better UI panel integrations

Improved performance for large documents

Native support for plugin publishing and versioning

For simple manual layer edits -> native Figma tools suffice

Highly compute-intensive tasks -> may impact Figma performance

Direct OS-level file manipulations -> Figma sandbox prevents

Tasks outside Figma documents -> API not applicable

Complex 3D animations -> better with dedicated tools or Lottie

Figma Plugin API empowers developers to extend Figma with custom tools and automation.

Enables deep document manipulation and workflow enhancements.

Supports plugin UI for interactive controls.

Allows integration with external data and services.

Essential for creating productivity-focused design tooling inside Figma.

Do I need Figma desktop to develop plugins? -> No, web works too

Can plugins access local files? -> Limited via user file pickers

Are plugins cross-platform? -> Yes, work on desktop and web

Can plugins run without UI? -> Yes, headless operations are supported

Is TypeScript recommended? -> Yes, strongly typed API improves safety