React XD

Render React components to Adobe XD. This can be used for React cross-platform UI libraries and for creating design systems. The (incomplete) API is based off React Native/react-primitives

This is a proof of concept for testing and feedback purposes. Please do not use in production systems.

Inspired by react-sketchapp

Getting Started

Requirements

• Adobe XD (Free, requires sign-up)
• Node.js & npm (can install with nvm)

Dependency Installation

Please refer to examples/colors for reference.

1. Initialise a repository or folder

mkdir design-system && cd $_
npm init -y

2. npm install your developer dependencies

npm install --save-dev @adobe/xdpm @babel/cli @babel/core @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties @babel/preset-env @babel/preset-flow @babel/preset-react babel-loader webpack webpack-cli

3. Install react-xd and the required external dependencies

npm install --save react-xd react@16.9.0

Code Setup

4. Refer to examples/colors for the webpack setup. You need a manifest.json and main.js entry point for the Adobe XD plugin. You need a build system such as webpack to compile the jsx with Babel into main.js

src/main.js example:

import { render, Document, View, Text } from 'react-xd';

const App = () => (
  <Document>
    <Artboard
      name="Artboard"
      style={{
        height: 640,
        width: 360,
        flexDirection: 'row',
      }}
    >
      <View
        style={{
          width: 360,
          height: 100,
          backgroundColor: 'purple',
          justifyContent: 'center',
          alignItems: 'center',
        }}
      >
        <Text style={{ color: 'white' }}>
          Hello World!!!
        </Text>
      </View>
    </Artboard>
  </Document>
);

function renderToXd(selection, documentRoot) {
  documentRoot.removeAllChildren(); // Resets document

  return render(<App />, { selection, documentRoot });
}


export const commands = {
  render: renderToXd,
  test: () => {}, // Hack to make XD show a menu with the render option instead of a single button
};

Credit

• react-sketchapp – inspired this project, and some bits of code are borrowed from it.
  • MIT License
  • Copyright (c) 2018 Airbnb

Contributing

Please post an issue offering any feedback or help! Thanks!