DrupalEasy Podcast S15E5 - Andy Blum - Drupal Smart Snippets for Visual Studio Code

We talk with Andy Blum about the Drupal Smart Snippets extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension brings some really useful Drupal-y features to Visual Studio Code including hook completion, form and render array element completion, and service and service method autocomplete.

URLs mentioned

• Drupal Smart Snippets extension for Visual Studio Code (Github) 
• vscodium 
• Configuring Visual Studio Code doc page on Drupal.org  
• Auto Close Tag extension 
• Auto Rename Tag extension 
• Git Graph extension 
• PHP Debug extension 
• PHP DocBlocker extension 
• PHP Intelephense extension 
• YAML extension 
• Twig Language 2 extension 

Suggested Visual Studio Code settings to go along with Drupal Smart Snippets extension:

"editor.snippetSuggestions": "top", [this used to be the default behavior until 1.6.0] "php.suggest.basic": false, [source] DrupalEasy News 

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