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Figma’s Component Variants let designers bundle multiple states into a single component. This guide shows how to build a button system, manage variant properties, and avoid performance pitfalls.
How Figma Component Variants model state as named properties, how to switch them programmatically via the Plugin API's variantProperties, and how boolean properties prevent combinatorial explosion.
Component Variants collapse sprawling per-state components into one master with explicit properties. Here's how they work with auto-layout and libraries, a concrete button example, and where they break down.
Learn how to build a Figma button that resizes its width based on label text using Auto Layout and component variants.
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