FriendlySnippets

FriendlySnippets

Use and share snippets the easy way

Inspiration

I found Mattt Xcode snippets arsenal very useful and I want to easily import them into Xcode. Here I use Mattt raw snippets as an example, but we can create our own raw snippets, convert them and share them easily

How I do it

• Download Xcode-Snippets
• Use NameChanger to change the file extension from .m to .rs (for raw snippets :D )
• I saw that Mattt has a very good convention in his files. But unfortunately, some files don't follow this, so I have to modify some .rs files. I think other raw snippet should follow this convention, too. Here it is, for example

// dispatch_async Pattern for Background Processing
// Dispatch to do work in the background, and then to the main queue with the results
// 
// Platform: All
// Language: Objective-C
// Completion Scope: Function or Method

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(<#dispatch_queue_priority_t priority#>, <#unsigned long flags#>), ^(void) {
    <#code#>
    
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void) {
        <#code#>
    });
});

• Write code to convert .rs files to .codesnippet file that Xcode can understand. Remember to name the files using UUID, so that Xcode can recognize. You can take a look at my code to see how I do it. Basically, it is

- (void)performParsing
{
    // Read files from bundle
    FTGSnippetReader *reader = [[FTGSnippetReader alloc] init];
    NSArray *rawSnippetFilePaths = [reader rawSnippetFilePaths];

    // Parse to Snippet
    FTGSnippetsParser *parser = [[FTGSnippetsParser alloc] init];
    NSMutableArray *snippets = [@[] mutableCopy];
    for (NSString *rawSnippetFilePath in rawSnippetFilePaths) {
        FTGSnippet *snippet = [parser snippetFromRawSnippetFilePath:rawSnippetFilePath];
        [snippets addObject:snippet];
    }

    // Save to document directory
    FTGSnippetSaver *saver = [[FTGSnippetSaver alloc] init];
    [snippets enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(FTGSnippet *snippet, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
        [saver saveSnippet:snippet];
    }];
}

• Use xcodesnippets to convert all theses UUID named codesnippets to friendly names. Read How xcodesnippets works to understand how it works
• The output is Default.snippetbundle folder, which you can share it to your friends. I ship Default.snippetbundle (which is the result of my code) as well, you can see it in the Output folder.

How to use it

• Now when you receive Default.snippetbundle, all you have to do is to run this

xcodesnippets install-bundle [path-to-snippet-bundle]

then restart Xcode and see all those snippets appeared in your Code Snippet Library

Licence

This project is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md.

Reference

1. Code Snippets
2. Xcode-Snippets
3. xcodesnippets

Feedback

There must be some better way to do it, if you know, please tell me onmyway133