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… :)

  • douglasg14b
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    11 months ago

    I go full chaos and look up where I last used it when I need a snippet…

    • perishthethoughtOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      It’s got to be here somewhere… (Search for way too long…) Dang, I guess I’ll just write it again from scratch

      Yeah, this is what I am looking to avoid.

      • douglasg14b
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        7 months ago

        I have a weird knack for reverse engineering, and reverse engineering stuff I’ve written 7-10 years ago is even easier!

        I tend to be able to find w/e snippet I’m looking for fast enough that I can’t be assed to do it right yet 😆

  • Lysergid
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    11 months ago

    Please, can you give an example of such code snippets? I’m wondering what people consider reusable in different projects.

    • pe1uca
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      11 months ago

      Not OP, but I’m thinking about the example in vs code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets
      Some boilerplate code for libraries and frameworks I constantly use.
      I’d be more interested in syncing the VS code snippets as they are automatically available in a file for each language and have the autocomplete stops.

      • xmunk
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        11 months ago

        If a library or framework requires boilerplate code it’s a bad library or a bad framework.

        • lysdexicEnglish
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          11 months ago

          If a library or framework requires boilerplate code it’s a bad library or a bad framework.

          I think this take is uneducated and can only come from a place of inexperience. There’s plenty of usecases that naturally lead to boilerplate code, such as initialization/termination, setting up/tearing down, configuration, etc. This is not a code smell, it’s just the natural reflection of having to integrate third-party code into your projects.

          • shnizmuffinEnglish
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            11 months ago

            Yes, in my experience, boilerplate typically comes into play when you’re using two libraries that don’t know about one another, or have no business touching each other’s concerns. (Using Alpine’s x-cloak with Tailwind comes to mind.)

            That and every single *-pipelines.yaml CI/CD config I’ve ever written.