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Open-Source Meets Design Tooling With Penpot
- Penpot is an open-source design tool that allows designers to create interactive prototypes and design systems at scale while developers can enjoy ready-to-use code.
- Being open-source creates a whole new level of accountability and flexibility for a tool and allowed you and your team to self-host giving you that extra layer of privacy and control.
- Penpot has the PenpotHub home for open-source templates and newly released plugin gallery that enables users to create new functionality when it’s not available in the tool.
- Creating a new plugin in Penpot is extremely ergonomic, and the Penpot team has a few packages to headstart in the process.
- Penpot API and the plugin interface uses a bidirectional messaging system to communicate with one another, allowing users to send and receive messages from the Penpot API.
- Penpot documentation has a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process of creating, testing, and publishing your plugin.
- Penpot is starting a Plugin Contest, where the first prize is US$ 1000, and the criteria are innovation, functionality, usability, performance, and code quality.
- Penpot is built with web technologies making it easy and fast to use.
- Penpot offers the same quality as other more popular and closed-source tools like Figma.
- Penpot plugins can be created using set templates for a few frameworks and does not take much time.
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