Appreciation post: A senior dev in Chicago told me 'a design system isn't a library, it's a contract' and that reframed our entire approach.

We kept treating our Figma component library as the single source of truth, which caused constant drift with our React codebase until we started versioning them together as one artifact.

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vera_roberts1d ago

That's such a great way to put it, we learned the same lesson the hard way!

logansullivan1d ago

Learned the hard way" was my exact mindset before this changed it.