Extracting React apps from Figma Make's undocumented binary format
Details
- External ID
- 46728659
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Extracting React apps from Figma Make's undocumented binary format
- Website domain
- albertsikkema.com
- Launched
- Jan. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 55
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8155467720685112
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- convert figma designs to react
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Reverse-engineering proprietary undocumented binary formats involving custom schema decoders (Kiwi), decompression algorithms, and AST reconstruction requires specialized reverse engineering and binary analysis expertise.
What it would actually take: This project requires binary disassembly, protocol reverse engineering, inspecting in-memory heap structures, and reconstructing serialization schemas (like Figma's proprietary Kiwi format and zstandard/brotli compression layers). The resulting tool must parse raw byte streams, map them to an internal component tree, and generate idiomatic React JSX code. This requires senior reverse engineers and compiler/AST specialists who understand binary file structures.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: lovable.dev - AI code generation with cleaner output, Figma Make - prototyping tool, binwalk - file analysis tool
Concerns raised: LLM-generated work presented without disclosure undermines credibility, AI authorship obscures human judgment and decision-making, Lack of transparency about tool usage in technical articles, Difficulty understanding AI-generated code without detailed review, AI tools produce code rather than design artifacts like illustrations
Feature requests: Automatic identification of file chunk types (deflate, zstd), Cleaner code output across multiple iterations, Extract design tokens for design systems
Competitors
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Launched 84 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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