2026
From spec to app: AI, React Native, Design System and Figma MCP
Building a mobile app on an unfamiliar stack. That was the starting hypothesis. React Native for mobile, Claude Code for AI-assisted development, Figma MCP to bridge designs and code. Three tools I had never used together, on a real production project.
This project documents that process end to end: how to structure your thinking with AI before touching any code, steer a build through sequenced batches, build a design system that lives simultaneously in the codebase and in Figma, and establish a two-way Code/Figma workflow via MCP. An app installed on my iPhone that I use every day.
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