Modular Snippets

A modular solution to snippets in Atom, including support for project-specific collections.

Any valid snippets [CSON or JSON] file inside ATOM_HOME/snippets/** will be loaded automatically, or reloaded if modified.

This package does not interfere with the existing snippets.cson, so you can slowly transition to this more modular approach.

The Atom Snippets… menu item will be overridden to open your snippets folder in a new window, along with the default snippets.cson if it still exists.

The Atom Snippets… menu item will be overridden to open your snippets folder in a new window, along with the default snippets.cson if it still exists.

Project Snippets

Some snippets might only be relevant to a particular project, so it makes sense to store them with that project; these could then be committed to version control and shared between a team. These local snippets are loaded from the first item found in the root of your project based on the following order:

• [.]snippets.cson
• [.]snippets/**/*.cson
• snippets: {object} in package.json
• snippets: {object} in your project-config

API

This package also provides a service to load any snippets {object}, file or folder…

// package.json
"consumedServices": {
  "modular-snippets": {
    "versions": {
      "^1.0.0": "consume"
    }
  }
},

# index.coffee
{Disposable} = require 'atom'

snippet = # {object}, file or folder.
  '.source.coffee':
    Snippet:
      prefix: 'prefix'
      body: 'snippet'

consumeSnippets: ({load}) ->
  load snippet
  new Disposable -> stopUsingService load

or using ES6 if you’re into that…

// index.js
'use babel';

import { Disposable } from 'atom';

let snippet = { // object }, file or folder.
  '.source.js': {
    Snippet: {
      prefix: 'prefix',
      body: 'snippet'
    }
  }
};

function consumeSnippets({load} => {
  load(snippet);
  return new Disposable(() => stopUsingService(load));
}

Install

apm install modular-snippets or search “snippets” under packages within Atom.

License

MIT © Daniel Bayley

Thanks to @thibmaek for the base repository.