Visual Studio Code Snippets

• Introduction
• Installation
• Using Snippets

Introduction

Code snippets are templates that make it easier to enter repeating code patterns, such as loops or conditional-statements.

Installation

To add the DCP Testing replated snippets, select Configure User Snippets under File > Preferences, and then select the language (by language identifier) for which the snippets should appear. The snippets can be found in the following folder:

dcp_test
└── helpers
    └── vsc_snippets

Using Snippets

As soon as the snippets are added to the User Snippets, those can be called by starting to type dcp>. Based on the currently opened file, the options of the corresponding language are provided. A simple example is provided below.

By typing dcp>protractor>specs the standard template will be added and translates to the following code.

var env = require('./environment.js');

describe(env.describeFile(__filename) + ': ...', function() {

    it('should ...', function(){
        
    });

});