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AMA: Figma 2.0
6 years ago from Dylan Field, CEO at Figma
Dylan Field, 6 years ago
It's clearly an important use case for components. We've received a lot of good feedback around the ability to manage 'state' in Figma via component overrides. I think this points to a deeper user problem, which we're currently exploring.
Ryan Carter, 6 years ago
What are some of the workarounds you use?
Thomas Lowry, 6 years ago I put together an article about this yesterday based on a tip someone gave me. Essentially you can make a component with instances of all the components you want to nest as instances, and you can show hide the child comps in the layer pane, due to the controls you get overrides in Figma. Hope this helps!
https://medium.com/@nspace/building-flexible-components-in-figma-41113aa69493
There are some good workarounds to nest components within components to give you the ability to have instances of nested components. Is there any plan to have the option to nest components from within the UI so it is more obvious/easier/faster? One of the Sketch features I really like is being able to select the symbols from a drop down and have them sorted based on naming convention.