VS Code for Flutter hacks that will blow your mind

Mahesh Jamdade
Flutter Community
Published in
5 min readJan 8, 2023

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When building software Productivity depends on various factors, including typing speed and accuracy. However, there are also many repetitive and mundane tasks that can be automated to save time. Using plugins and extensions in your IDE can help you work more efficiently. Among these, Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a highly customizable editor that offers a wide range of useful extensions. While the hacks mentioned in this post are specific to Flutter, they can also be applied to other programming languages and frameworks in general.

Here are the 4 ultimate vscode hacks to make you highly productive at work.

1. Shortcuts for Code Snippets

Often when writing code, we write a lot of Boilerplate and repetitive code, Writing such code can be time-consuming, irritating, and boring too. So to deal with this vscode allows you to create code snippets that you can preconfigure and fetch by writing some preconfigured keywords.

To do this you will need to define code snippets in dart.json by pressing
cmd/ctrl + shift + p -> User snippets-> dart.json

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Mahesh Jamdade
Flutter Community

I occasionally write about my experiences with different technologies. Personal blog: https://blog.maheshjamdade.com