One of the things I love about modern text editors is code snippets. Coding tends to involve repetition, code snippets can really help cut down on needless typing.
I group all my code snippets by prefixing them with “my”. That way to view all my snippets I just start typing “my” and Atom shows all my snippets for the specific file type I’m currently working on.
Some simple examples I use quite often are:
myHTML – My own HTML boilerplate
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="assets/css/style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/js/script.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
</body>
</html>myjQuery – Inserts jQuery using their CDN
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-FgpCb/KJQlLNfOu91ta32o/NMZxltwRo8QtmkMRdAu8=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>myFontAwesome – Inserts font awesome using their CDN
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.7.2/css/all.css" integrity="sha384-fnmOCqbTlWIlj8LyTjo7mOUStjsKC4pOpQbqyi7RrhN7udi9RwhKkMHpvLbHG9Sr" crossorigin="anonymous">myLog – inserts a console.log() to help debug my JavaScript
console.log()Getting all this working in Atom is a fairly easy affair. I found the below video by Hitesh Choudhary super useful.