

And for big projects, finding the correct folder can be challenging. This is slow as it forces you to use the mouse. The usual way to create files is to select the folder you want in the sidebar, then click on "New File".

This is quite useful to remove all the default comments when you create a new Flutter project: Removing all single line comments with the Remove Comments extension Improve your code comments by highlighting alerts, notes, TODOs, and more: Highlighted comments with the Better Comments extension
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Instead, it's much better to use the Dart Data Class Generator to do the work for you: Using the quick fix shortcut to generate a data class Generated data class codeĮspecially if you have model classes with many properties, this can be a huge time-saver!

When creating model classes, you'll often needs methods such as copyWith(), toString(), toJson(), fromJson(), toMap(), fromMap(), =, hashCode. Using the right extensions will save you a lot of time and give you superpowers. If you want to see them all and customise the key bindings, this is the one to use: Show all the keyboard shortcuts VSCode Extensions for Flutter Development
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If you want to take this further, you can install the Awesome Flutter Snippets extension, which offers many other useful snippets. To see all the available Dart snippets, check this file. These are great because they generate all the boilerplate code for you, and all you have left to do is to name your widget: Generated boilerplate for the "stanim" snippetīut you can also use snippets to generate common code blocks, such as if/else, for loops, function definitions, etc: Dart snippet to insert an if/else statement Generated if/else statement "stanim" snippet to insert a StatefulWidget with an AnimationController

Use this anywhere in the editor to get a contextual list of code actions. YouTube already has many excellent videos about VSCode shortcuts, and I'll link the best ones at the end.īut for now, here's a shortlist of my favourites: 1. RevenueCat gives you everything you need to build, analyze, and grow IAPs with just a few lines of code. Help me keep it that way by checking out this sponsor:Īdd subscriptions to your Flutter apps.
