raycast-intro.md

Raycast

• MacOS only :(
• Extension store has approval process
• Extensions are open source in a monorepo
• Extension API uses React
• Renders native UI w/ AppKit
• Node as the JS runtime

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Some built-in features:

• Search Menu Items
• Clipboard history
• Quicklinks
• Floating notes
• Snippets
• Very smart calculator
• Whole bunch of AI stuff
• Emoji picker
• Window Management

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Rad extensions

• URL Encode/decode
• Base64 Encode/decode
• Decode JWT's
• Paste TypeScript as JavaScript (strips types)
• Convert JSON to TypeScript interfaces
• Github
• VS Code
• Color Picker

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Raycast Resources

• Manual
• Developer docs
• VS Code Extension
• AI Prompts
• Script Commands
• Community Slack

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Let's see how to create an extension!