Figma + Claude Code + React: design system with your own hands - without paid courses
Usually, a design system lives in two places that are not connected. In Figma – components, tokens, rules. The code is similar, but in its own way. The designer updated the color of the button - the developer learned about it a week later at a review. Or not at all. Claude Code closes this gap. Figma connects to Claude as a data source via MCP. Claude reads tokens directly from the design file, generates React components exactly on them, can draw in Figma and write documentation in it. This guide is the whole way: from installation to a sealed prototype of your components. No coding. You have to be able to write prompts. Important point: most of the steps below — install the project, Git, folder structure, file creation — you do not have to do it with your hands. Claude Code can do this on its own. The steps are described in detail to understand what is happening, but in real work it is enough to write to the agent what you need on the exit - and he will figure it out himself.
