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ASK DEV: How are you managing your code snippets

Srebalaji Thirumalai on May 05, 2019

Hey Devs

Do you have a habit of saving code snippets? (I don't). If Yes, comment on your favorite tool to manage your code snippets.

And If No, Tell me why you don't need a snippet manager. Personally, I didn't find a good product to use.

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Mishk₰ Rkz

Yep. I love thiscodeworks.com for saving code snippets - maybe because I'm the creator ;). I had the same problem as you and decided to just create a place to store snippets myself. It has project boards and the ability to bookmark other people's code. Am also working on integrating it with Atom and VS Code.

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spideroxy

Hi Mishky

I like your website. I just registered it. That is an awesome place to store code snippets. It's easy to use.

If you don't mind me suggesting to you - it would be nice if you can add a search feature. If I look for a specific snippet, I have to keep looking till I find it.

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Mishka

Sorry seeing this post later. We've implemented search since then. And with the Chrome & VS Code extensions you can also search from within other apps as well now!

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spideroxy

thanks for your reply. I have tested the search feature, but thats not exactly what I need. For example, I have added some code snippets of mine to my private gists. When searching for a specific one from the private gists, I get the whole results including public and I cannot find mine. I need to have a search feature on the private gists only.

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Jaimie Carter

Wow. I just signed up. Really good, by the looks of it

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Mishka

Thanks! Let me know if you have any suggestions/ feedback :)

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Jaimie Carter

Hi Mishka, will do! It looks good, so far. Nice work.

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Edwin Mak

I haven't lately been creating snippets of code. However, I also haven't found a good snippet manager that works for me and I have used gist.github.com/.

Hope you find something that works well for you.... and then you can share it with me =)

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DECS

Try DECS decentralized application, an all-in-one workspace to manage code snippets and protect sensitive data.

Chrome extension to capture code snippets on the go.
Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=1goz6YAGI5Q

Features:
Security - End-to-end encryption
Modern UI - Search, Share and Embed
Decentralised - Own your data

It's FREE!

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Corey Alexander

I want to use a tool something like pet, but there are a few things about pet specifically that I didn't love and therefor never spent a ton of time getting setup.
It's been a bit since I really got into it, but I believe the few things I didn't love were the fact that gists were the default syncing strategy, and their search was as 'fuzzy' as I would have liked. But I think pet might be an amazing tool for others, just didn't fit my workflow perfectly.

What I actually use is nvalt and have different notes for different 'topics' with different snippets in them. For instance I have a bash note with various different bash snippets I might want.
The reason I don't love this is my snippets are intermingled with other more prose style notes, and I would like to seperate the two. But this works for now until I find the right tool to replace it with!

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Vuild

I build a website/product & put them all in it for easy access (literally, take the code from a site /app to reuse). Then I know where they go & what they are compatible with. No need for a filing system or organizing.

This won't work in all scenarios but it works for a lot of straightforward stuff.

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lbonanomi • Edited

Another satisfied user of gist.github.com. I comment them with hashtags and run a chunk of python that indexes gists based on their hashtags and nudges me about duplication of content.

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Thomas Langdon

We use 3cols.com because it is the only thing we have found that lets you store all your content in the cloud and access it from either the web or an app without being painfully slow to load and look through snippets (ahem gists ahem). Another plus is that it lets you share the 'boards' with other developers so our entire dev team is now reading from the same sheet

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Nathan S.R.

Hi, I had to write a new & easy web-based application myself, to satisfy various needs of my large team ( documenting their various code snippets ) and make it accessible throughout the local area network, for ease of use. This application / system is now released as an Free & Open Source Project here:
sourceforge.net/projects/easy-team...

Hope this helps out all teams looking for an easy way to document everything.

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Joshua Mervine • Edited

I save and fetch gists all using a combination of github.com/mattn/gist-vim and just going to gist.github.com. It’s probably not as efficient as a lot of solutions mentioned.

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Athanasios Karastogiannis

A good one to try out is called boostNote, they have mac, windows, linux, ios, android, and web clients. It is fully designed for code snippets in mind, and it includes a search, and tag functions. Worth a shot to check out. boostnote.io/

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Periklis Gkolias

I usually have a context, so I just commit them to a relevant repo. If not, I would go for gist.github.com

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Shawn Williams

I use Dash, and I'm more than happy with its functionality. I always have the app open and use it frequently as a resource for documentation when coding, so it's easy to remember where all of my personal code snippets are.

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Joel Krause

I do all the time! Never know when you’ll need them again. For this I use Cacher (cacher.io/). It integrates with VS Code so I can insert/save snippets right from VS Code!

 
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Corey Alexander

Gotcha that makes sense, thanks for the reply! I'll have to give it a closer look

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Srebalaji Thirumalai

Devs

Thank you for your replies. :) I can see that most of the people are using Github gist.

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aderchox

I personally recommend "massCode".
But if you like Github Gists, you may also find "Lepton" interesting.

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Corey Alexander

This looks interesting! Would you mind expanding on how you use this to manage code snippets? From my limiting glance at the README it seemed more focused on creating new projects from templates.

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Kaos-Industries

This all seems quite vague. What technologies are you using to accomplish all this?

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Lester Romano

right now I'm using snippet store. zerox-dg.github.io/SnippetStoreWeb/