Turning components into data

https://medium.com/@nathanacurtis/components-as-data-2be178777f21 is an interesting article on how to create specs for UI components.

Some advantages of this are:

Creating structured content to be consumed by AI [[20250811104331-model-context-protocol-mcp]] servers
A tool-agnostic way of structuring components, which can be translated for JS, Figma, or whatever else
A simplified way to align on things across disciplines, or even across [[20221025093009-multi-brand-design-systems]]
For documentation generation, or to help with handover