- Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Introducing Closure Snippets
I just posted a first version of Closure Snippets, an unofficial collection of snippets for Google's Closure Library. As demonstrated in my recent overview of Closure Tools, Closure Library has a tremendous amount of value, but it comes at the cost of brevity.
Fortunately, we have plenty of tools for making things easier and faster to write. One of my favorites is YASnippet, an Emacs extension which offers TextMate-inspired support for snippets. This forms the basis for Closure Snippets. The snippets in the package are designed to run when js2-mode is active.
I put together a quick screencast to show Closure Snippets in action. As in my previous Emacs screencast, I've used a slightly modified but mostly standard Emacs configuration:
Want to try it for yourself? Grab the source, and check out the README for configuration instructions.