I made a React Snippets extension for Zed

I was trying out the Zed editor, the new kid on the block. The experience was mostly fine, but I couldn’t find any React snippet extensions that suited my needs.

In VSCode, I had been using ES7+ React/Redux/React-Native snippets, and I really missed having it in Zed.

Since I couldn’t find a similar extension, I decided to make one myself.

I came across the repo for the VSCode extension, and wrote a quick script to convert them into Zed’s format. The documentation for building extensions was great, but I couldn’t find much about snippet-type extensions, so I studied a few existing ones and built mine based on that.

You can check it out here: https://github.com/shonebinu/zed-react-snippets

I’ve also made a PR to get it listed in Zed’s extensions search. Let’s see…