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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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[–] Lysergid@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago (12 children)

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

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

In PHP, a lot. Unit test are boilerplate 90% of the time, getters and setters (although they can be done via Generate), ORM classes with your default shebang (autoincrement ID), and I could go on and on.

I dislike snippets for code like "key this array by some logic" - this should be reusable via a dedicated helper or service.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Getters/setters can also be done automatically by __get, __set or __call it's even possible to write a base class or trait that does this automatically.

I am a PHP guru, if you've ever got questions I'm happy to help.

[–] ntzm@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Please never do any of this

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

Nah, it's actually very useful piping and makes code readable and useful.

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