Access React code in CodeSandbox and navigate better
Anima is a design-to-development tool that allows designers to create high-fidelity prototypes from inside Sketch, Adobe XD, and Figma, and export HTML & CSS in a single click.
Here at Anima, we are constantly working behind the scenes to improve your user experience. From today, you can access your React code using CodeSandbox, making it easier than ever to navigate the code and see it up and running!
What is CodeSandbox ?
CodeSandbox is a platform that allows you to edit code online, speeding up web development. …
Get developer-friendly HTML code from your Figma design
Overview 👀
Anima lets designers create high-fidelity prototypes with Sketch, Adobe XD, and Figma, whilst allowing developers to export developer-friendly code in a matter of a few clicks. The end result is a clean code which is why developers love to use it.
Exporting your Figma design to HTML is geared more toward developing high-fidelity prototypes and websites. In this article, we will guide you through how to do this, what it looks like, and just how easy it is.
How To Export Code?
You can export HTML code directly from Figma, or alternatively directly from Anima’s web app, here are three ways in which you…
Anima for Figma is now 10x faster!
We are excited to introduce Instant Preview in Figma, giving you the power to turn your designs into Developer-friendly code faster than ever.
With Anima’s new Instant Preview, you can preview your design as code right inside Figma, and instantly.
What is the difference you ask?!
Previously, Anima uploaded your design and opened up your default browser window to preview your design. This upload process was preventing the preview from showing up instantly.
Now, Anima converts your design to code and the preview shows up instantly.
It completely changes the experience of using Anima for Figma 🤗
Automatically generate HTML from a Sketch design
Overview
Anima allows designers to create fully responsive prototypes that look and work exactly like the finished product using their own design tools (Sketch, Adobe XD, or Figma).
Developers can export these designs as HTML & CSS, or React code, in a matter of a few clicks. Anima gives you component-based, clean code that developers love to use.
This article takes you through how to do this, what it looks like, and just how easy it is.
How to export code
There are two ways in which you can do this, either by exporting the code directly from your design tool (Sketch, Adobe XD, or…
Designing for different screen sizes is essential for creating the best user experience. In this article, we will show you how to create responsive prototypes with Figma and Anima.
Responsive prototypes in 3 steps:
- Apply Constraints
- Connect Breakpoints
- Share responsive prototypes
1. Apply figma’s Constraints 📌
Constraints show how elements should respond as you resize their Frames. This helps you control how your design looks across different screen sizes and devices.
How to do it? It's simple— Pinning elements!
- Constraints relates to the containing Frame.
- You can’t apply constraints to Groups.
- Left / Right / Top / Bottom / Center — Will keep the layer size fixed and pin it…
Download React components; group layers; convert to image, and code quality improvements
Anima is here to help Front-end engineers deliver faster, by automating the grunt work. Teams can convert Sketch, Adobe XD, or Figma into React code, saving precious time.
In our previous blog post, we introduced Anima’s new Code mode.
We improve code quality and developer tools on Anima on a weekly basis. Check out our latest updates.
Grouping with multiple-selection
Have you ever received a design file that you had to convert to code, only to find out that the hierarchy in the file is not what you had in mind?
Well now you can change how elements are grouped regardless of how…
Turn Sketch, Figma, or Adobe XD into developer-friendly React.js code with Anima
Anima is here to help Front-end engineers deliver faster by automating the grunt work. Teams can convert Sketch, Adobe XD, or Figma into React code and save precious time.
Step 1: Sync your design
To begin, sync your design to Anima, or ask the designer on your team to:
- Get Anima plugin for your design tool.
- Click Preview in Browser → Sync
Automatically Generate HTML from an Adobe XD Design
Anima allows designers to create prototypes that feel real inside Sketch, Adobe XD, and Figma. Developers can export designs as HTML & CSS, or React code.
Control how your designs look across different screen sizes
If you’re using XD’s Responsive Resize today, you probably save a lot of time. Having a responsive behavior inside XD makes it easier to design for multiple screen sizes.
We’re thrilled to announce that with Anima for Adobe XD v1.0.7, Anima Prototypes fully support XD’s Responsive Resize. That means that viewing prototypes in the browser will now show a responsive prototype.
Using Anima, you can now create fully responsive designs that can be resized in the browser preview and in the code.
If you are not familiar with us, Anima allows designers to create high-fidelity prototypes inside Sketch, Adobe XD, and Figma and exports them as HTML & CSS with a single click.
You can also build and host your website using Anima, and now with better SEO!
Why is SEO important?
SEO means optimizing your website to search engines, so it comes higher search in results and with a clearer message. An important part of this optimization is embedding snippets of code— meta tags — to the code of a website or webpage. This helps search engines better recognize what the page is about.
Based…
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