How do you manage code snippets? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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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... :)

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[-] coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Easy access to small snippets of code you often need, but putting them in their own library would be crazy.

Opening a file / db connection
parsing xml/json/... ,
template for unit tests,
import and initialization of framework at work.

Depending on the IDE snippets can also move parts of the code around: (intellij live templates)

variable.notnull -> if (variable != null) {... }
"text %s".format -> String.format("text %s",...)

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