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id: fayazara/macos-app-skills/macos-patterns
version: "e8637f01"
license: none
install: manual
updated: 2026-05-27
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# Macos Patterns — This skill guides developers through macOS-specific design patterns that differ fundamentally from web development. It covers menu bar apps using MenuBarExtra and NSStatusItem, window management with NSPanel versus NSWindow, activation policies for Dock visibility, screen geometry with macOS's bottom-left coordinate system, and collection behaviors for multi-space and fullscreen interactions. Essential for anyone building native macOS applications who needs to avoid applying web paradigms to platform-specific APIs.

Publisher: fayazara · Stars: 631 · Updated: 2026-05-27

Install (manual): `git clone https://github.com/fayazara/macos-app-skills`

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