Improved DX

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With this epic we'll be spending some time on improving our internal developer experience. We haven't invested in this much since the start of the plugin, and it shows! We need to improve on how internally we build with the plugin to help build up velocity.

Efficiency

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1. Create Figma screens of various plugin screens #2932
   UI content design +2
2. Automated releases #2708
   dev experience +1
   
3. Ability to run the plugin in the browser #2709
   dev experience +1
   
4. Put plugin in debug-mode for certain scenarios #2710
   dev experience +1
5. Export state for easy debugging #2934
   dev experience +1
   
6. https://github.com/tokens-studio/ds/issues/192
7. Explore adding commitizen as a precommit hook #2935
   dev experience +1

Stability

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1. Improve E2E test coverage #2936
   dev experience +1
2. Introduce lint step in CI #2937
   dev experience +1
   
3. Add more test cases to some of our core functionality. Drill into test coverage of files where we don't have proper coverage and fix. #2793
   dev experience +1
4. Move and extract various logic into reusable pieces that we can share with other areas of Tokens Studio #2938
   0 of 8
   dev experience +1
5. Ability to run tests in an actual Figma environment #2711
   dev experience +1
6. CI: Fix test coverage checks #2939
   dev experience +1
7. [DX] Sentry: create an error handling utility to standardize tracking #2866
   dev experience +1
   
8. Upgrade to Figma's [dynamic page load API](https://www.figma.com/plugin-docs/migrating-to-dynamic-loading/). We'll need to make that switch eventually, we should do so along the way. #2940
   dev experience +1
9. [DX] Set up environment variables to be pulled from vault #2788
   dev experience +1
10. Consolidate createLocalVariables functions into one #2792
    Figma export Figma variables dev experience +3
11. Visual regression testing #2799
    dev experience +1
12. Fix all warnings and errors when running unit tests #2989
    dev experience +1
13. Migrate from Cypress to Playwright #3010
    dev experience +1
    

Usability

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1. [DX] AsyncMessaging: explore two-way sync #2743
   dev experience +1
2. Simplify saving data on the user object #2941
   dev experience +1
3. Refactor files that contain too much logic which make it hard to test #2944
   0 of 3
   dev experience +1
4. We have a bunch of console warnings and errors when running in dev #2943
   dev experience +1
   
5. [DX] Docs: Revamp README #2728
   dev experience documentation enhancement +3
6. [DX] Docs: Revamp startup-logic.md #2729
   dev experience documentation enhancement +3
   
7. [DX] Docs: Revamp translations.md #2046
   dev experience documentation enhancement +3
8. [DX] Docs: Revamp clientstorage-data.md #2730
   dev experience documentation enhancement +3
9. [DX] Docs: Revamp creating-a-release.md #2731
   dev experience documentation enhancement +3
10. [DX] Docs: Revamp shared-node-data.md #2732
    dev experience documentation enhancement +3
11. [DX] Docs: Revamp storage-providers-and-credentials.md #2733
    dev experience documentation enhancement +3
12. [DX] Docs: - Plan internal docs structure to act as a better onboarding guide #2734
    dev experience documentation enhancement +3
13. [DX] AsyncMessaging: refactor existing class, usages and assets #2744
    dev experience +1
14. Create a linting rule or automate rules of order / group of imports on files #2950
    dev experience +1

Related items we had open for a while

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1. Possible duplicate shortcuts registered in console #1959
   dev experience +1
   
2. Add a lint step to CI #1958
   dev experience +1
   
3. Websocket preview for faster development #1967
   dev experience +1

Maybe also worth looking into if #1967 would be an option for faster development