Snippets

Type a short prefix and a snippet shows up in completions. Files in VS Code’s snippet format work as is.

Where they live

Location	Applies to
The folder opened from Settings › Editor › User snippets	Every project on this Mac
The project’s .vscode/*.code-snippets	That project

<language>.json (for example, typescript.json) applies to that language; *.code-snippets uses its scope field.

Format

{
  "Log to console": {
    "prefix": "log",
    "body": ["console.log($1);"],
    "description": "console.log"
  }
}

$1, $2 are tab stops; ${1:name} adds placeholder text.