The handoff process between Designer and Developer has always been a challenge because work gets lost in translation between different engineering styles. There isn’t a one size fits all handoff template that can be used everywhere so I always coordinate with developers to establish a set of handoff requirements according to their needs. 
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I try my best to build the ideal design handoff for every team with the following guidelines:
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• Provide breakpoint designs for desktop, tablet, and mobile to specify the interface variances.

• Export images in a linked folder with consistent and descriptive labeling.

• Provide a clickable prototype if interactions need to be described with more detail.

• Figma’s Inspect Tool: we are fortunate to have a seamless tool for providing design specs. Heavily documented padding and size measurements of every interface detail is finally a task of the past!

• Developers typically process their assignments through user story tickets so we need to curate the design handoff for each user story to add more clarity. Developers will appreciate this extra detail so they can focus their time and effort on the actual build.

• Use the same language that engineers are familiar with to avoid confusion.

• Utilize design system tokens to streamline the product development process. This speeds up the build with standardized styles, variables, and components.