Ray.so API

This is unofficial NodeJs (JavaScript) API for ray.so that turns your code into beautiful images. Choose from a range of syntax colors, hide or show the background, and toggle between a dark and light window.

Navigation

• Installing
• Usage
• Parameters
• Examples
  • Default
  • Custom
  • No Background
• Themes
  • Candy
  • Crimson
  • Falcon
  • Meadow
  • Midnight
  • Raindrop
  • Sunset
• Credits

Installing

$ npm i rayso-api

Usage

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({
    // parameters, if you want to customize the output
    // you'll find detailed info about parameters below
})

raySo
    .cook(`console.log('Hello, World!');`)
    .then(response => {
        // response is image buffer
    })
    .catch(err => {
        console.error(err)
    })

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo()

Parameters

Parameter	Default value	Type	Description
title	"Untitled-1"	String	The title will be displayed on top of the code box.
theme	"breeze"	String	There are several options of how your box will look like. Available themes: breeze, candy, crimson, falcon, meadow, midnight, raindrop, sunset
background	true	Boolean	If disabled, it will create an image of code box only, without background.
darkMode	true	Boolean	If disabled, it will change your theme to its light version.
padding	32	String or Number	Distance between borders and code box. Available values: 16, 32, 64 and 128.
language	"auto"	String	You better leave it auto :/ However, you can try to pass some language name and if it worked, good for you!
localPreview	false	Boolean	If enabled, it will create example.png image file of the output in the current directory.
localPreviewPath	current directory	String	Path to create example files. MacOS, Linux and Windows paths supported.
debug	false	Boolean	If enabled, it will show messages in the console during code execution.

Examples

Default output

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo()

Custom parameters

import RaySo, {
    CardTheme,
    CardPadding,
    CardProgrammingLanguage,
} from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({
    title: 'Custom Title',
    theme: CardTheme.CANDY,
    padding: CardPadding.md,
    language: CardProgrammingLanguage.JS,
    debug: true,
    localPreview: true,
    localPreviewPath: '/Users/s0ftik3/rayso_screenshots',
})

Output without background

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({ background: false })

Themes

These are all the available themes, so far. As soon Ray.So has a new theme, it will appear here. Default theme breeze is not listed here, you saw it in the first picture of this README.

Candy

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({ theme: 'candy' })

Crimson

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({ theme: 'crimson' })

Falcon

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({ theme: 'falcon' })

Meadow

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({ theme: 'meadow' })

Midnight

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({ theme: 'midnight' })

Raindrop

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({ theme: 'raindrop' })

Sunset

import RaySo from 'rayso-api'
const raySo = new RaySo({ theme: 'sunset' })

Credits

• The source is ray.so website.