Package detail

vscode-snippet-generator

Generate a snippet extensions for vscode.

Usage VSCode extension

1. Install Dynamic Custom Snippets extension.
2. Add snippet files into .vscode/snippets/ folder. (Please refer to the template content Snippet tempalte)
3. The first time create the .vscode/snippets/ folder, need to restart vscode; otherwise you only need to trigger the vscode-snippet-generator: Cache all dynamic snippets command again.

Happy coding!!!

You can configure "vscode-snippet-generator.prefix": "" in settings.json to change the prefix.

You can configuae "vscode-snippet-generator.languages": ["html", "typescript"] in settings.json to support language list.

Usage Command Line: Quick start

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cipchk/vscode-snippet-generator-tpl.git
$ cd vscode-snippet-generator-tpl
$ # build
$ npm run build
$ # package vscode extension
$ npm run release

Cli Options

vscode-snippet-generator --help

Snippet tempalte

Markdown file symbol of a specify snippet, like this:

---
prefix: button
description: 按钮
scope: typescript,html
---

```html
<button${1: type="${2|text,tel|}"}>
  $0
<button>

- `prefix` defines how this snippet is selected from IntelliSense and tab completion. In this case `button`.
- `description` is the description used in the IntelliSense drop down.
- `scope` Restrict template scope, if not specified, it means no restriction. In this case `typescript` and `html` document.
- markdown body is defines snippet code, muse be hava a code tag.

> How to writing snippet code, pls refre to [vscode-Creating your own snippets](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets)

## I18n

The `description` support i18n, like this:

```markdown
---
prefix: button
description:
  zh-CN: 按钮
  en-US: Button
---

Specify language version to generate with i18n parameter.

vscode-snippet-generator --i18n=zh-CN --outFile=snippets-zh-CN.json
vscode-snippet-generator --i18n=en-US --outFile=snippets-en-US.json

If you want to display multiple languages in a snippet extension, you can use i18nTpl.

# window
vscode-snippet-generator --i18nTpl=\"{zh-CN}({en-US})\"

License

The MIT License (see the LICENSE file for the full text)