If you’ve ever turned Figma designs into a functional application, you know just how complex that process can be.
Every aspect of the design needs to become part of a working application—from mapping out component structures and handling responsive layouts to setting up data flows and interactive states.
The good news is that the manual back-and-forth between design and implementation is about to change dramatically. The Lovable and Builder.io integration lets you turn designs into full applications, so you can focus on what matters: building features and delivering great products.
What is Lovable?
Lovable is a full stack AI software engineer and editing environment. It's designed to let you create and iterate on your projects quickly, so you can move from an idea to a real application, deployed live, without wrangling complex tools or environments.
What is Visual Copilot?
Visual Copilot is Builder.io’s AI-powered Figma to code toolchain that leverages AI models to convert Figma designs into React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, HTML, etc code in real-time. It can even reuse your existing components in the output and use any styling library or system you need.
Check out our Product Hunt launch and share your thoughts on bridging the gap between design and code.
Convert designs to full stack apps
Lovable builds your front-end using React, Tailwind, and Vite, and lets you build full stack apps (to store data, and build with third party backends) using Supabase:
Create a Lovable account
Head over to lovable.dev and create an account.
Launch the Visual Copilot Figma plugin
In Figma, load the project you want to turn into code. Open the Actions menu from the toolbar, then click the Plugins & widgets tab. Search for “Builder.io AI-powered Figma to Code” and run it.
You can also try the plugin from the Figma community page directly.
Export to code
Select the design you want to convert. You’ll see a preview in the plugin. If you’re satisfied with your selection, click the “Export to Code” button. This starts the code generation process behind the scenes.
Connect to Builder.io
If you’re not logged in to Builder.io, you’ll be prompted to connect your account first. Otherwise, the plugin will jump straight into its AI-powered code generation. It might take a minute or two to process your design. That’s normal—it’s building out the code, setting up file structures, and making sure everything is wired correctly.
View the app in Lovable
When the process is complete, you’ll see a button to open the converted design in Lovable. Click it, and your app will open right in Lovable. You’ll see all the code generated from your Figma layers—tables, forms, even placeholder data in some cases.
Modify with Lovable
Now you’re in Lovable’s territory. If you want a table to pull in real data from Supabase, or you need a registration flow, just type what you want (“Hook this form up to my user database,” for instance), and Lovable will handle the rest.
Sync to GitHub
For seamless collaboration and hand-offs, connect Lovable to your GitHub account. This automatically syncs the code into your repository, supporting more advanced workflows where you need full version control and team collaboration.
Sync design changes to Lovable (coming soon)
Soon you'll be able to update your app in Lovable whenever designers make changes to their Figma designs. AI will handle merging the design changes while keeping all your custom code intact. A few clicks, and changes flow straight to production, no manual reconciliation needed.
Want to be among the first to try this feature? Join our waitlist and we'll notify you as soon as it's ready.
Conclusion
By pairing Lovable with Visual Copilot, you’re removing the most repetitive parts of front-end development and giving yourself (or your team) a major head start. No more hunting down font sizes and margins in a Figma file, or troubleshooting CSS that doesn’t match the original design.
Instead, you can generate working code in a few clicks, integrate it into Lovable, and immediately start adding real logic and data connections.
It's a workflow that frees you to focus on building features that delight your users—and shipping complete, functional applications faster than ever.
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