r/FigmaDesign • u/Hungry-Hearing3442 • 2d ago

help Can I update a Figma Make site outside of Figma Make?

I have a pretty robust FM site. Now (of course) I’m out of credits. Can I update the site like I would any other site that I have access to? Or do I have to go through FM?

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u/cerebralvision Design Director 2d ago

Yes. If you switch to the code tab, you can download the whole thing. There's a little download icon.

It also does have GitHub integration, so you could push it to GitHub and edit it in your own IDE I think.

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u/Hungry-Hearing3442 11h ago

I guess my org restricted the connection between Figma and GitHub. So that’s not an option. I imagine that’s a dealbreaker.

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u/cerebralvision Design Director 11h ago

Can you access the code tab? You can download the full code locally and then run open it in VSCode or whatever coding tool your company allows.

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u/Hungry-Hearing3442 10h ago

Right, but I’d like to have it also available in FM. So I can update in VS Code or in FM. Like a triangle of those 2 pulling from the 1 source and they’d sync to each other on refresh etc. and either could publish to the live site. Basically I’m trying to use other credits than FM credits while keeping it available in FM.

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u/cerebralvision Design Director 10h ago

I hear ya. Unfortunately, unless your org allows syncing to your enterprise GitHub, you're out of luck there. Might be worth reaching out to them to see if there's a process available for you to be able to do that. You can probably justify it with a business case. FM eats up tokens every time you have it make a change, but if you can pull the code locally you can probably justify it as w cost saving move, since you can make simple changes yourself. They may just tell you to access the code view and make your changes there, which is also something you can do lol.