File Templates Manager for VSCode

File Templates Manager for VSCode allows you to manage your file templates and generate files from them.

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Features

File Template Manager is powerful extension with following features that improve your productivity and do routine work for you.

Manage file template

Interactive integrated doT template engine

• {{ }} - evaluation
• {{= }} - interpolation
• {{! }} - interpolation with encoding
• {{# }} - compile-time evaluation/includes and partials
• {{## #}} - compile-time defines
• {{? }} - conditionals
• {{~ }} - array iteration

Full Documentation of doT template engine

Variables available by default

• DIR - directory of created file
• NAME - name from input prompt
• FILE - NAME + template extension
• FILE_PATH - DIR + FILE
• USER - name of user
• DATE - date of file creation

Evaluation and interpolation example for HTML file

{{ for(let i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) }}
<div>Item {{=i}}</div>

result is

<div>Item 0</div>
<div>Item 1</div>
<div>Item 2</div>
<div>Item 3</div>
<div>Item 4</div>
<div>Item 5</div>
<div>Item 6</div>
<div>Item 7</div>
<div>Item 8</div>
<div>Item 9</div>

Select prompt example for C# language file

using System;

{{#def.select('TYPE', 'Select file type', ['class','interface','struct','enum'])}}
/*
  {{=$.NAME}} {{=$.TYPE}}
 */
public {{=$.TYPE}} {{=$.NAME}}
{

}

you will see a prompt

and get result for class type

using System;

/*
  CSharp class
 */
public class CSharp {

}

tsconfig.json example file

{{#def.select('MODULE', 'Specify module code generation', ['none','commonjs','amd','system','umd','es6','es2015','esnext'])}}
{{#def.select('TARGET', 'Specify ECMAScript target version', ['es3','es6','es2016','es2017','esnext'])}}
{{#def.confirm('SOURCE_MAP', 'Should generate corresponding .map file?')}}
{
  "compilerOptions": {
      "module": "{{=$.MODULE}}",
      "target": "{{=$.TARGET}}",
      "sourceMap": {{=$.SOURCE_MAP}}
  },
  "exclude": [
      "node_modules"
  ]
}

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• templates.showExplorer: show/hide templates explorer
• templates.customVars: you can define custom variables like AUTHOR, LICENSE, PROJECT and etc

License

The MIT License Copyright (c) 2019 Ivan Zakharchanka