This VS Code trick can save your time!!

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 .

Let's deep dive in to our todays article !

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"
  }