Hello everyone, In this article i will be explaning about how to create your own Boilerplate for any programming language. I will ensure that by reading article you are going to make your own Boilerplate .

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What's a Boilerplate Code?

While coding, a piece of code that you have to use in every program mostly in every programming language. So, instead of manually typing code in the editor, we create a code-snippet so that that part of code is easily entered without typing it manually.

Boilerplate or a code-snippet are solution provided by IDEs like VS Code, where a certain piece code can be called within a program by typing prefix names.

Let's create

I am going to create a Boilerplate for C++

Step 1: Locating C++ JSON file for adding the snippet

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

• Click on User Snippets

• Search for the Programming language for which you want to add boilerplate

Step 2: Adding the code to the .JSON file

• You will get something like this when you open .JSON file

• Remove the code below example and add this

  "boilerplate": {
        "prefix": "boilerplate code", //The prefix can be any random name
        "body": [
            "#include<iostream>" ,
            "using namespace std;" ,
            "int main()" ,
            "{" ,   
            "  $1" ,
            "  return 0;" ,
            "}"
        ],
        "description": "Log output to console"
    }
  

• After making changes to .JSON file press Ctrl+S to save the changes.

Step 3: Nothing more just use it your program

• Create a New C++ file. Now Type the prefix .

• VS Code automatically suggests while you are typing the prefix name .

• Press ENTER.

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