Automate React Component

Automate-react-component is a vscode extension that creates a react component with all necessary files with skeleton code. This extension provides a handy way to create new react components in your project without the hassle of copy-pasting code from other places.

Features

Creating a default react component

Demo for creating test-component-card react component under client/public/src folder of the project:

Creating a custom react component

Demo for creating custom-card react component with custom-card.js and test.js file under newly created folders components/custom/:

Snippets

Demos to use react code-snippets in your project files:

React functional component (in typescript/javascript)

Command: rc

React functional component (in typescript)

Command: rf

React functional component (in typescript)

Command: rt

React functional component (in typescript)

Command: rs

Material UI dialog (in typescript)

Command: md

Usage

• Install the extension

There are three ways to activate this extension:

1. Shortcut Key:

   • Press Command/CTRL + Shift + R

2. Command Pallete:

   • Open command pallete through Command/CTRL+Shift+P.
   • Search and click on Create React Component.

3. Context menu:

   • Right click on the folder where you want the component to be created
   • Click on the Create React Component option.

• Enter your component name e.g. my-component.
• In case of shortcut-key and command pallete option, specify the relative path from your project root where the newly created component should be placed e.g. /home/src/components/ will create my-component folder with relevant files under <YourProjectRoot>/home/src/components/. From the root to my-component folder, the extension will automatically create folders if they do not already exist.

Custom configuration

Follow these steps to create your custom configuration for react component:

1. Open Settings menu through Preferences > Settings OR Command + ,

2. Search for automatereact and click on Edit in settings.json link under Automatereact: Files option.

3. Inside settings.json type in automatereact.files and hit enter. The default file configuration array will be automatically displayed.

4. Add/Remove objects from the automatereact.files array.

Example

"automatereact.files" : [
    ...
    {
        fileName: "fn$.ts",
        content: "import Cn$Styles from './fn$.styles';\n console.log("cN$");\n"
    },
    ...
]

will create a typescript file (.ts) and replace each occurence of fn$ with the component name entered by user after running the extension. The content will be written inside that file and also each occurence of Cn$ will be replaced by the PascalCase version of component name while cN$ will replaced by the camelCase version.

Example Output

Component name entered by user: my-component

content of my-component.ts file:

import MyComponentStyles from "./my-component.styles";
console.log("myComponent");

Development

• Clone the repository from https://github.com/zainsra7/automate-react-component
• Open the project in VSCode:
  • cd automate-react-component
  • code .
• Press F5 to compile and run.
• Follow the official API guide to make changes: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/get-started/extension-anatomy

Release Notes

0.1.0

• Added shortcut key and context menu activation for the extension
• Added custom configuration for creating user-defined react component
• Added snippets to create skeleton code for react files in typescript

0.0.1

Initial release of automate-react-component

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Future Notes

• Get feedback from users / Improve the extension
• Clone this extension for other famous IDE(s) like Intellij, Atom.