File Templates VSCode Extension

Visual Studio code extenstion that allows to quickly create new files based on defined templates.

Available Commands

On Visual Studio code, Press F1 to open the command menu and type ext install file-templates.

This extension was only tested on Linux. If you have a Mac or Windows and find some issue, please create a PR.

In VSCode, right click on the folder where you want to generate the new file. You should see an option "Files : New from template". Selecting this option a list of available templates should appear. Just select your template and the file will be created.
You can also do the same from the Command Palette. In this case the new file will be created in the root directory of the project.
Its also possible to do the other way around and create a template based on an open file. For that "right-click" on any opened file and you should see the option of the context menu.

Variables can now be used in templates in the following way:

normal text #{variable_name}

When a file is created from the template, the user is prompted with a value to put here.

By default, this extension expects the file templates to be placed at the following location, depending of youur OS:

Linux:

$HOME/.config/Code/User/FileTemplates

Mac:

$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/FileTemplates

Windows:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\FileTemplates

However, you can change the default location by adding the following to your user or workspace settings:

"fileTemplates.templates_dir": "path/to/my/templates"

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.