Figma electron app (unofficial)

Figma-linux it's unofficial desktop application for Linux for the Figma web application.
This app based on the Electron

Dependences

On Debian-based distros You need install the libgconf-2-4 library

Repositories

Ubuntu

For now, there are have repository for deb package on Launchpad.
To add repository, execute command below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chrdevs/figma

Then update your packages:

sudo apt update

If you receive a NO_PUBKEY error while running apt update, then you must add the key manualy:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-key --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 70F3445E637983CC

And then install:

sudo apt install figma-linux -y

Or Beta deb package:

sudo apt install figma-linux-beta -y

Arch Linux

There is a figma-linux package available in the AUR

yay -S figma-linux

Install

Download app package for You linux distribution.
For debian-based linux distributions:

sudo dpkg -i figma-linux_0.5.7_amd64.deb

With snap package:

sudo snap install figma-linux

Or Beta release:

sudo snap install --channel=beta figma-linux

For RedHat-based linux distributions:

sudo yum install figma-linux-0.5.7.x86_64.rpm

or

sudo rpm -Uvh figma-linux-0.5.7.x86_64.rpm

or

sudo zypper install figma-linux-0.5.7.x86_64.rpm

or

sudo smart install figma-linux-0.5.7.x86_64.rpm

AppImage

For normal work of the app via AppImage, you need to make it an executable

chmod +x figma-linux-0.6.1.AppImage

and install it via command:

sudo ./figma-linux-0.6.1.AppImage -i

It installs the desktop file, icons and creates symbolic link to the AppImage file. After that, you can run app via the icon or command:

figma-linux

For display rest flags for AppImage:

./figma-linux-0.6.1.AppImage -h

Run

figma-linux

Development

Steps to start development:

1. git clone git@github.com:ChugunovRoman/figma-linux.git
2. cd figma-linux
3. install Rust via rustup
4. npm i

To start the app in dev mode:

npm run dev

To start the app in production mode:

npm run build; npm start

ATTENTION: When You do changes in middleware component, You need to rebuild and restart the app each time. Because the middleware execute only on run the app. Hot Reload doesn't work here.

description of npm scripts

• dev - runs app in dev mode
• start - runs already built app
• build - only builds app from src
• builder - packs the app into different linux packages (see ./config/builder.json)
• pack - removes old packages from the installers dir, build the app and pack it

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