Among many genuinely useful deeplinks you can use to control Raycast from afar in a simple way, I just spotted an interesting one: raycast://confetti This is what it does: Despite it being a confetti cannon and nothing more, I think it goes deeper than stuff like e.g. Asana’s “celebration creatures”, and it deserves recognition for three actually kinda serious reasons: You can use it to quickly test whether you’re wiring deeplinks correctly. It’s clever the Raycast team put it at the beginning of the doc page; I think every API or a complex connection method should have a simple and delightful “success scenario” for two reasons: to celebrate you establishing that connection, and to have something so simple it cannot itself be misbehaving (this way you know that if you can’t get confetti to work, you for sure messed up something elsewhere). Once you know how to invoke it from far away, it’s also great for testing other things. Sounds can be muted. In JavaScript, console.log() can be…
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