How a Weekend MVP Became inDrive's Cross-Platform Design Token Export Tool

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How inDrive built ExFig, a Swift CLI for exporting Figma tokens and assets to iOS, Android, Flutter, and Web, cutting CI time by 4–7x.
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inDrive built ExFig, an open-source Swift CLI that exports Figma design tokens and assets across iOS, Android, Flutter, Web, and Penpot. It started as a weekend fork of figma-export and grew into a production tool with Pkl configs, platform plugins, granular caching, MCP support, DocC docs, and a GitHub Action. In production, ExFig cut iOS illustration export from 154s to 37s, with cache-hit runs around 3s, and reduced Android export from 576s to 84s.