What is the purpose of snippets?

[markokocic]

What are snippets? I see the reference in the source, but no documentation or examples. The snippets repository is also missing.

[nikolap]

Think these are still in development. @yogthos can comment more

[yogthos]

So, the idea behind snippets is to create templates that can be used to generate code in the REPL. An example snippet can be found here. The example snippet creates a Reitit route and handles all the boilerplate for it. Ideally this could works as sort of a curated Stack Overflow in the REPL. You could search for a snippet by tags or description, and then run the snippet to generate the code you need.

The snippet is a Markdown file that has to have the structure seen in the example where it declares tags, description, and a snippet. The arguments to the snippet get passed in when the snippet is called and injected in the template that's then rendered.

I was thinking of managing snippets in a similar way to modules where they could live in a repo and then new snippets can be added via pull requests.