In any programming language or JavaScript framework, you’ll find yourself writing certain lines of code over, and over… and over again. That can be automated. VSCode uses the idea of snippets to do this. Snippets allow you to define templates that write the boilerplate for you in whenever you need.

You can define your own snippets, download them as a package from the Marketplace or use Emmet (pre-installed) to save time and avoid writing boilerplate or commonly used patterns.

Learn how to add a shortcut for templates of commonly reused sections of code like new files, functions, or loops.

Create a Shortcut for a New React File with Custom VSCode Snippets

It surely depends on how verbose your programming language is, but there are always again things we have to repetitively type over and over again. As good web developers are lazy :wink: we automate our work, right? In this lesson I'm quickly showing you how easy it is to create code snippets for Visual Studio Code.

Create code snippets in Visual Studio Code

As developers, we strive to be quick and productive. We love to automate things so we spend less time on daunting, manual work and more time on solving interesting problems.

In this lesson we're going to learn how to use emmet (which is built into VSCode) to quickly write HTML/JSX and how to use prettier (which we're going to install from extensions tab) to automatically format it so we may work faster and be more productive.

Code Generation in VSCode

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