Anima Production Checklist

Overview

Anima converts Figma designs into production-ready code for React, Vue, and HTML. A failed design-to-code pipeline means engineers receive broken components, mismatched tokens, or stale screens that drift from the source of truth. This checklist ensures your Anima integration produces reliable, framework-compliant output before it reaches CI/CD.

Prerequisites

• Named design, engineering, security, and operations owners who can make a go/no-go decision and own the rollback path.
• A staging environment using separate managed Anima/Figma credentials, an allowlisted design registry, and a reproducible generated-code fixture.
• Defined output quality gates: source-version traceability, lint/type/build, visual/accessibility review, and no secrets in artifacts or logs.

Instructions

1. Assign an owner and evidence link to every required checklist item.
2. Run the readiness script with the deployment identity in staging and retain only its redacted result.
3. Exercise a generation and rollback/disable path with an approved design component, then verify downstream code-quality and visual gates.
4. Approve progressive release only when all required checks pass; any failed security, credential, output, or fallback control is a no-go condition.

Authentication & Secrets

• ANIMA_API_KEY stored in secrets manager (never in source)
• Figma personal access token scoped to read-only with expiration
• Separate API keys for dev/staging/prod environments
• Key rotation schedule documented (90-day cycle recommended)
• Tokens excluded from client bundles and build artifacts

API Integration

• Production base URL configured (https://api.animaapp.com)
• Rate limit handling for standard tier (10 generations/min)
• Generation cache prevents redundant API calls for unchanged screens
• Figma file version polling detects design changes automatically
• Webhook or polling configured for async generation completion
• Component mapping rules tested for target framework (React/Vue/HTML)

Error Handling & Resilience

• Circuit breaker configured for Anima API outages
• Retry with exponential backoff for 429/5xx responses
• Graceful fallback when Figma PAT expires mid-pipeline
• Generated code validated against ESLint/Prettier before merge
• Design token mismatches flagged before component output
• Empty generation results handled (missing layers, unsupported elements)

Monitoring & Alerting

• API latency tracked per generation request
• Error rate alerts set (threshold: >5% over 5 minutes)
• Generation quality score monitored (component render pass rate)
• Figma sync failures trigger immediate notification
• Daily digest of generation counts and token usage

Validation Script

async function checkAnimaReadiness(): Promise<void> {
  const checks: { name: string; pass: boolean; detail: string }[] = [];
  // Verify Anima API connectivity
  try {
    const res = await fetch('https://api.animaapp.com/v1/projects', {
      headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.ANIMA_API_KEY}` },
    });
    checks.push({ name: 'Anima API', pass: res.ok, detail: res.ok ? 'Connected' : `HTTP ${res.status}` });
  } catch (e: any) { checks.push({ name: 'Anima API', pass: false, detail: e.message }); }
  // Verify Figma access
  try {
    const res = await fetch('https://api.figma.com/v1/me', {
      headers: { 'X-Figma-Token': process.env.FIGMA_TOKEN! },
    });
    checks.push({ name: 'Figma Access', pass: res.ok, detail: res.ok ? 'Authenticated' : `HTTP ${res.status}` });
  } catch (e: any) { checks.push({ name: 'Figma Access', pass: false, detail: e.message }); }
  // Token leak check
  const fs = await import('fs');
  if (fs.existsSync('./dist')) {
    const content = fs.readdirSync('./dist').map(f => fs.readFileSync(`./dist/${f}`, 'utf8')).join('');
    const leaked = content.includes(process.env.ANIMA_API_KEY || '');
    checks.push({ name: 'Token Safety', pass: !leaked, detail: leaked ? 'KEY IN BUILD!' : 'Clean' });
  }
  for (const c of checks) console.log(`[${c.pass ? 'PASS' : 'FAIL'}] ${c.name}: ${c.detail}`);
}
checkAnimaReadiness();

Error Handling

Check	Risk if Skipped	Priority
API key rotation	Expired keys break entire pipeline	P1
Figma token expiry	Silent sync failure, stale designs	P1
Generation rate limits	429 errors drop design updates	P2
Component render validation	Broken UI shipped to production	P2
Design token mapping	Visual inconsistencies across app	P3

Output

• Signed-off go/no-go record with owners and redacted readiness evidence
• Verified secret, provider, and Figma access boundaries
• Generated-component validation and source-version traceability receipts
• Tested rollback or generation-disable path for production incidents

Examples

For a production rehearsal, generate one allowlisted staging component using the production-shaped secret binding, run the readiness script, and send the result through lint, type checking, visual review, and the release approval workflow. Record the Figma version, generated artifact digest, deploy revision, and rollback owner. If token safety fails, a quality gate is red, or the design source cannot be traced, declare a no-go, disable generation, and correct the failed control before rerunning the full checklist.

Resources

• Anima API Docs
• Anima Status

Next Steps

See anima-security-basics for secret management and access control patterns.