Do you keep them in your IDE, or elsewhere? Do you have an app for that? Are they easily shared?

I realized I have no system at all but could use one to make it easier to find code I’ve written and might need again some day.

By snippets, I am referring to any chunk of code / text in any format or language, of any length.

Thanks!

EDIT A DAY LATER: Thanks you all! Reading all these ideas, I got inspired to create my own little web app. Wish me luck… :)

  • coloredgrayscale@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Easy access to small snippets of code you often need, but putting them in their own library would be crazy.

    • Opening a file / db connection
    • parsing xml/json/… ,
    • template for unit tests,
    • import and initialization of framework at work.

    Depending on the IDE snippets can also move parts of the code around: (intellij live templates)

    • variable.notnull -> if (variable != null) {… }
    • “text %s”.format -> String.format(“text %s”,…)