Learn Angular: Related Tool & Skills

Chapter 5: Boosting Your Workflow with Angular 5 Snippets and VS Code

by Michael Wanyoike

In this chapter, we’ll focus on how to use Angular 5 snippets in Visual Studio Code to improve our workflow. We’ll first start with the basics of using and creating snippets. We’ll look at how we can use Angular snippets for VS Code in an Angular project. Then we’ll later look at how we can create our own snippets and share them with others.

For anyone who’s become proficient in a programming language, you know how boring it is to type the same code over and over again. You eventually start copying and pasting pieces of your code to spare your fingers the agony of writing another for loop.

What if your editor could help you insert this common code for you ...