[CLI] Support programatic configuration

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reading the CLI's current figma.config.json loading path and its configuration types. Check how the CLI discovers and loads config files, then assess support for the listed JavaScript and TypeScript formats. Done means the CLI can load those formats and the documented configuration options remain usable.

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Description

feature request

Currently the CLI is configured through the figma.config.json file.

It would be nice to support other config files formats like:

  • figma.config.js
  • figma.config.cjs
  • figma.config.mjs
  • figma.config.ts
  • figma.config.mts

Doing so could bring benefits like

  • Config validation by the IDE (if types are exposed)
  • Export node URL substitutions as constants and import them into the mapping files.
  • ...
Dominant language
TypeScript
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