Creating your own snippet in VS Code within 1 minute

You write the same basic boiler plate code every-time you create a new file and wish if I could use some snippet to write those. So in this short article, I'll tell you how you can create your own snippet in VS Code within 1 minute, which will save your lot of time and effort. For the purpose of demo I'll show how you can create code snippet for C++.

Step 1: Open your VS Code and click on the settings button in the bottom-left corner.

Step 2: Now click on User Snippets.

Step 3: You’ll now see a dropdown at the top for a list of various files in JSON format. Now search for C++ or you can create of your own,

Step 4: Delete everything for the file and write the following:

"cpp snippet": {
        "prefix": "cpp",
        "body": [
            "#include<iostream>",
            "using namespace std;",
            "int main(){",
            "    $0", //$0 for where you want your cursor to be
            "    return 0;",
            "}"
        ],
        "description": "to produce the short snippet for cpp"
    }

Your final code should look like this:

Now save this file. Create a new C++ file and write cpp, you will have like this on your screen and press enter:

Here,

• prefix defines how you want to call your code snippet.
• body defines what should be the content of code.
• description gives a short bio about the snippet

Kudos, you have finally created your own code snippet.

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