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Or we can search for the VS Code marketplace for snippets. Snippet Generator is a site that allows us to do so using a visual interface.

Now that we know what all is possible, we might want to make loads of the snippets. Would paste in the contents of the clipboard in upper case. Starting with our very own “Hello World” snippet:

Description: An optional description of the snippet (displayed in the tooltip of Intellisense).Prefix: The character combination that triggers the snippet.Name: What IntelliSense will display for this snippet (also the key for the JSON object).They support C-style code comments if we want to add some. Snippet files are JSON files, and a user can define an unlimited number of custom Visual Studio Code snippets. The snippet editor that opens shows a comment telling us how to create a Visual Studio Code snippet on our own. For our example, we will choose JavaScript. And it allows us to choose the language we want to create the snippet for. We can then search for the “Configure User Snippets” option. Pressing Ctrl (or Cmd) + Shift + P on the keyboard opens the command palette in VS Code. Before talking about the fancy stuff, let us first see how to create a Visual Studio Code snippet. Visual Studio Code snippets go a bit further than just pasting the code at the current pointer location. But we can always take it a notch higher? Visual Studio Code snippets The next step in that evolution was Auto Hot Keys, which were keyboard combinations that allowed pasting in specific snippets into the editor. But when I refer to snippets, I am generally referring to relatively larger pieces of code. But code snippets do not refer to just the one-liners that we copy from Stack Overflow (okay, we might copy a lot more than that, but shhh!). We use Google and Stack Overflow for those things! And I would not argue with that either. Some of you might be shaking your heads about having a file to copy-paste from.