I Built a Free VS Code Extension for Odoo Developers 🐍

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As an Odoo developer, I was tired of writing the same boilerplate code every single day.

Every time I created a new model, I had to write:

from odoo import models, fields, api

class MyModel(models.Model):
    _name = 'my.model'
    _description = 'My Model'

    name = fields.Char(string='Name', required=True)

And every time I needed a form view, I had to write the entire XML structure from scratch.

So I decided to do something about it — I built a free VS Code extension called Odoo Dev Snippets!

What is Odoo Dev Snippets?

It is a VS Code extension that provides 20+ code snippets for Odoo developers. Just type a short prefix, press Tab, and your boilerplate code is ready in seconds!

Python Snippets

Prefix	What you get
`omodel`	Complete Odoo model class
`ocompute`	Computed field with `@api.depends`
`oonchange`	Onchange method decorator
`om2o`	Many2one relational field
`oo2m`	One2many relational field
`om2m`	Many2many relational field
`obtn`	Button action method
`oerror`	Raise UserError
`osearch`	Search query
`owizard`	TransientModel wizard

Example

Type omodel + Tab:

from odoo import models, fields, api

class SaleOrder(models.Model):
    _name = 'sale.order'
    _description = 'Sale Order'

    name = fields.Char(string='Name', required=True)
    # cursor lands here — ready to code!

Type ocompute + Tab:

total_amount = fields.Float(
    string='Total Amount',
    compute='_compute_total_amount'
)

@api.depends('order_line')
def _compute_total_amount(self):
    for rec in self:
        rec.total_amount = # cursor lands here

XML Snippets

Prefix	What you get
`oform`	Complete form view
`otree`	Tree / list view
`okanban`	Kanban view
`osearchview`	Search view with filter and group by
`oaction`	Window action
`omenu`	Menu item
`obtnheader`	Header with button and statusbar
`osmartbtn`	Smart button
`onote`	Notebook with page tab
`ogroup2`	Two-column group layout
`oinherit`	View inherit with XPath
`ochatter`	Chatter widget
`omodulexml`	Base XML file wrapper

Example

Type oform + Tab:

<record id="sale_order_form_view" model="ir.ui.view">
    <field name="name">sale.order.form</field>
    <field name="model">sale.order</field>
    <field name="arch" type="xml">
        <form string="Sale Order">
            <sheet>
                <group>
                    <field name="name"/>
                    <!-- cursor lands here -->
                </group>
            </sheet>
        </form>
    </field>
</record>

Type oinherit + Tab:

<record id="sale_order_form_view_inherit" model="ir.ui.view">
    <field name="name">sale.order.form.inherit</field>
    <field name="model">sale.order</field>
    <field name="inherit_id" ref="sale.view_order_form"/>
    <field name="arch" type="xml">
        <xpath expr="//field[@name='partner_id']" position="after">
            <!-- cursor lands here -->
        </xpath>
    </field>
</record>

How to Install

From VS Code Marketplace

Open VS Code
Press Ctrl+Shift+X
Search "Odoo Dev Snippets"
Click Install

🔗 Install from Marketplace

From GitHub

🔗 github.com/amankum02/odoo-snippets

Pro Tip

Just type o in any Python or XML file and VS Code IntelliSense will show you all available Odoo snippets in a dropdown!

What's Next?

I am planning to add more snippets:

__manifest__.py template
Security ir.model.access.csv template
Controller routes
QWeb templates
Pivot and graph views

Contribute

This is an open source project and contributions are welcome!

If you use Odoo daily and have snippets you always write — please open a PR or suggest in the issues. Let's build this together for the Odoo community! 🙌

🔗 GitHub Repository