paddy-sketch-plugin

warning This project is no longer actively maintained

Whilst some of the functinality may continue to work on versions earlier than Sketch v53; I am no longer spending my time actively working on this project. Thanks for all the support of those that have been using Paddy!

For a deeper understanding of why I have stopped working on it; find out more here.

It seems that the Sketch team are looking into building this functionality natively tada; in the meantime, Anima have released an update that has a lot of the same functionality as Paddy 2; check it out here.

This code is open source, so please feel free to fork it and do whatever you want with it ok_hand

If you are using this plugin, please 'star' this project. It's a simple way for me to be able to see how many people are using this, and how much effort I need to put into improving it further.

If you love this plugin, why not shout me a coffee coffee via PayPal to share the love! It will definitely help me to be able to support this plugin further.

Why this plugin?

There are some similar plugins out there that do some of the features of this plugin, but none of them do all of it in the simple way I wanted them to.

Automatic: Most other plugins require a keyboard shortcut for them to be applied, or re-applied. This is all done automatically as you manipulate your layers; simply deselect everything, and will be updated.

Visible properties: It's easy to scan your layer list to see what padding / spacing is applied to your layers and groups; without the need to select them individually. This is because all the properties are set via the layer's name.

No special data manipulation: This simply resizes and moves your layers to optimal positions – it doesn't turn your groups into a special 'Stack group' or something; so other people or programs such as Zeplin, can read the Sketch file perfectly fine, without the need for this plugin too.

Lightweight: It just does a couple of core things – it's not bloated with a bunch of unused features.