How a Weekend MVP Became inDrive's Cross-Platform Design Token Export Tool
From The Good Tech Companies by HackerNoon
June 12, 2026 · 25 min
About this episode
The episode discusses how inDrive developed ExFig, a tool for exporting Figma design tokens across multiple platforms, significantly improving export times.
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-a-weekend-mvp-became-indrives-cross-platform-design-token-export-tool . 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. Check more stories related to undefined at: https://hackernoon.com/c/undefined . You can also check exclusive content about #swift , #design-systems , #figma , #open-source , #mobile-development , #cicd , #ios , #good-company , and more. This story was written by: @indrivetech . Learn more about this writer by checking @indrivetech's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . 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.
Topics covered
- design systems
- open source
- mobile development
- CI/CD
- Figma
- Swift
Keywords
- ExFig
- Figma tokens
- Swift CLI
- cross-platform
- mobile development
- CI time reduction
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: inDrive, HackerNoon
Products: ExFig, Figma, Swift, iOS, Android, Flutter, Web, Penpot
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