Snippets

[bjartek]

Snippets

Grant category

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• Developer tools / services

Description

Problem statement

Snippets is a fantastic tool to ease the work of developing. VS Code has a rich set of snippets for various languages but nothing for flow. This grant aims to fix that.

Proposed solution

Impact

Easier to code, reuse best practises in the IDE

Milestones and funding

Note: Please consider adoption and/or maintenance milestones at the end of your project.

Milestone	Deliverables	Timeline	Risks	USD proposal
1 - Gather information	document	2 weeks	In order to know what snippets are needed it is important to talk to the community first and also analyze existing code to know what to add	3000
2 - Implementation	extension/repo	4 weeks	Implement snippets in a github repo and either hand it of to be included in the official vs code plugin or add a separate snippets plugin for code	7000

Total funding proposed: 10000

Team

Name	Role	Bio	Contact
Bjarte Karlsen	Code-monkey	I sling code and have fun and help some people too	[email protected]

[bjartek]

An example video on the power of snippets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMOkYdKxelY

I have a PoC repo with this already but have not spent the effort on gathering it all since I wanted to gauge the interest for this.

[bjartek]

PoC repo https://github.com/bjartek/cadence-snippets/tree/main

[turbolent]

Great to see these useful snippets!

It would be nice if the snippets could be added to the existing set of snippets that we have in the language server (see https://github.com/onflow/cadence-tools/blob/master/languageserver/server/server.go). That way all IDEs/editors that support the Language Server Protocol could make use of them, including VS Code and the Playground.

[bjartek]

That is a bit out of scope for this grant but it can be a follow up one maybe? Or add a new milestone?

I did not know these where there so i have to look at my ide setup and see how i can get them to work.

Doing duplicate work here is not needed for sure.

[turbolent]

In what format / for what tools do you plan to provide the snippets?

[bjartek]

The plan was to use the json file in my example repo since that is what code supports. But reading about lsp snippets that might be better. I think i need to study some more.

[bjartek]

It looks like LSP snippets really can mimic a lot of what native snippets can do and adding them to the servers should not be that hard so it might be possible to use that in goal 2 instead of code plugin.

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