It's 4 PM on a Thursday. Your designer just pinged you: "Hey, the new dashboard designs are ready in Figma!" You open the file. Beautiful. Clean auto layout with perfectly organized components. The responsive layouts look flawless across every breakpoint.
You know what comes next. Three days of squinting at spacing, rebuilding every component from scratch, and endless "can you make it 2px taller?" comments. Instead of building features, you're playing human OCR, converting Figma designs to React code.
Sure, you could try one of those Figma to React plugins, but we both know how that goes. They promise clean React code and deliver non-semantic HTML soup with inline styles everywhere. The generated code is so far from your actual component-based React code that you might as well start from scratch.
Here's the thing: Figma components and React components speak different languages. One thinks in layers and visual properties. The other thinks in props, state, and reusable code. Most tools just do literal translation, which is why the output is unusable and slows down your entire development process.
Fusion is the first visual AI agent that can autonomously build and edit enterprise-scale React applications. It thinks in visual properties and reusable code, integrating directly with your existing codebase, and creates production-ready code that writes React components like your team. It'll even submit a PR for you.
Fusion takes a completely different approach to code generation. Instead of naive translation, it uses AI to understand what you're actually trying to build.
When you export Figma designs using the Builder.io Figma plugin, Fusion doesn't just look at the pixels. It understands your design intent, recognizes patterns, and generates the React code you would actually write.
You know that onboarding flow spread across multiple screens in your Figma file? Instead of building each page separately and then wiring them together, Fusion understands the relationship between frames.
Feed it three onboarding frames, type a prompt and it'll generate React code for a complete flow with proper state management, transitions, and navigation. The responsive layouts work on every screen size without you writing a single media query.
Let's say you've got a button component in Figma with 12 different variants. Primary, secondary, disabled, with icon, without icon... you know the drill. Fusion looks at your Figma components, understands the variant structure, and creates clean code.
All your design tokens transfer over. Colors, spacing, typography. The styled components (or Tailwind, if that's your thing) match your design system exactly. No more "close enough" implementations.
With Fusion, you can actually edit components visually without breaking the code.
Picture this: Your designer notices the padding is off on a card component. Instead of filing a ticket, they can jump into Fusion, adjust the spacing visually, and the React code updates automatically. It's still clean code. Still follows your patterns. Just with the right padding now.
The user-friendly interface doesn't generate inline styles or any of that nonsense. It updates your actual components, respecting your code structure.
Think about how many times you've built these from scratch:
- Navigation bars with responsive behavior
- Card components with hover states
- Data tables with sorting and filtering
- Form inputs with validation states
- Modal dialogs with proper focus management
With Fusion's AI powered Figma to React conversion, you export Figma designs for these common patterns and get back functional code that actually works. Not broken HTML. Not a rough starting point. Whether you're building individual code components or an entire app, you get real, working React components you can ship.
Ready to try it? Here's exactly how to convert designs to React code:
Launch your repo in Fusion using our CLI command: npx "@builder.io/dev-tools@latest" launch or point Fusion at your GitHub repo from the UI. Works with plain React, Next.js, Remix, whatever you're using. Starting a new project? Fusion creates a new React + Vite app by default.
Export your Figma designs with our Figma plugin. It handles:
- Individual components for your design system
- Complete page layouts with proper hierarchy
- Multiple screens that need to work together
- Design tokens to match your CSS or styled components
Fusion's code generation:
- Maps Figma designs to React components intelligently
- Creates reusable components instead of one-off implementations
- Handles responsive layouts with modern CSS (flexbox, grid)
- Connects to your data sources when needed
Every change happens on a branch. Review the generated code, make sure it meets your standards, merge when ready. Just like any other PR.
For developers:
- Spend time on business logic and advanced features, not pixel pushing
- Get clean React code that follows your patterns
- Use modern React features (hooks, context, suspense)
- Keep your styled components or CSS approach
- No more "make it pixel perfect" tickets
For designers:
- Your Figma designs actually get built as intended
- Make design changes without waiting for sprint planning
- See exactly how designs work in production
- No more "we had to change this for technical reasons"
- Fusion lets you tweak without breaking things
Every week you spend manually converting Figma to React is a week you're not building features your users actually want. Fusion handles the boring part so you can focus on the interesting problems.
Your Figma components become real React components. Your design systems stay consistent. Your team stops arguing about pixels and starts shipping products.
