Figma Code Connect untangles batch previews as routine maintenance rolls on

Figma Code Connect fixes batch preview

The week's clearest developer-facing fix landed in Code Connect, which now accepts the template file of a component declared in a .figma.batch.json file. Previously the tool rejected such a path with "Not a valid Code Connect file," which meant the only way to preview one component out of a batch was to preview the entire batch at once. For teams mapping large component libraries, that turned a quick check into a full render; now individual components can be previewed on their own, cutting iteration time on exactly the kind of large design systems Code Connect is built for.

Small fixes across the collaboration stack

The rest of the collection shipped routine churn with little to report. Notion put out three separate bug-fix-and-performance updates over the week, each one after another — nothing individually notable, but a steady drumbeat of stability work for anyone living in the app. Linear's mobile client also got a small round of bug fixes and minor improvements, and Figma's desktop app carried a dependency update with associated fixes. Slack, characteristically, described its own patch as making everything an itty-bitty bit better — which is to say, nothing you'd notice unless something was previously broken.

Discord opens the floor to bug reports

Discord took a different tack, using its September 8 patch notes less to announce specific fixes than to invite users to report what's bothering them, with the engineering team promising to look into it. It's a reminder that for mature collaboration platforms, the week's most interesting change is often less about what shipped than about how the team wants to hear from the people using it.

What to take away

If you build with Figma's design-to-code tooling, the Code Connect fix is the one worth acting on this week. Everything else was the ordinary maintenance that keeps these tools out of your way — worth installing, not worth reading about.