Our design system's icon set broke our mobile app last month

I mean, we updated the main icon library in Figma and pushed the new tokens to our React Native project. The problem was that the export script changed the naming convention for about 30 assets, so they just didn't load on the user's device. It took us a full day to figure out why the checkout screen was showing empty squares. We had to roll back the release and write a better check for our icon pipeline. Has anyone else had a naming mismatch take down a whole feature like that?

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jenny_campbell1d ago

That "fragile pipeline" thing @barnes.kai mentioned is everywhere. My smart home lights stopped working because a software update changed the command names. Same basic problem, just a different system. It feels like everything is held together with old code and hope.

barnes.kai1d ago

That "naming mismatch" problem is a classic. A friend's team once had a dashboard go blank because their build tool started changing case on file names. They spent hours checking the logic before they found the simple script error. It really shows how fragile these pipelines can be.