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Friendly snippets

Set of preconfigured snippets for different languages.

From rafamadriz·Updated June 17, 2026·View on GitHub·

Snippets collection for a set of different programming languages. The project is written primarily in Lua, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2021. It has gained significant community traction with 2,742 stars and 572 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: friendly-snippets, languages, programming-languages, snippets.

Friendly Snippets

Snippets collection for a set of different programming languages.

The only goal is to have one community driven repository for all kinds of
snippets in all programming languages, this way you can have it all in one
place.

Install

Use your plugin manager of choice, e.g.

With Lazy.nvim

lua
{ "rafamadriz/friendly-snippets" }

[!WARNING]
If you're using LuaSnip make sure to use
require("luasnip.loaders.from_vscode").lazy_load(), and add
friendly-snippets as a dependency for LuaSnip, otherwise snippets might not
be detected. If you don't use lazy_load() you might notice a slower
startup-time

lua
{ "L3MON4D3/LuaSnip", dependencies = { "rafamadriz/friendly-snippets" }, }

With Packer

lua
use "rafamadriz/friendly-snippets"

With vim-plug

vim
Plug "rafamadriz/friendly-snippets"

With coc.nvim

vim
:CocInstall https://github.com/rafamadriz/friendly-snippets@main

Usage

This collection of snippets should work with any snippet engine that supports
loading vscode snippets. Like for example:

Add snippets from a framework to a filetype.

[!NOTE]
This is handled by your snippet engine and has nothing to do with this snippets collection

There's extra snippets included in this repo but they are not added by default,
since it would be irrelevant for people not using those frameworks. See
snippets/frameworks

For example: if you want to add rails snippets to ruby.

With LuaSnip:

lua
require'luasnip'.filetype_extend("ruby", {"rails"})

With vim-vsnip:

viml
let g:vsnip_filetypes.ruby = ['rails']

Excluding snippets

[!NOTE]
This is handled by your snippet engine and has nothing to do with this snippets collection

With LuaSnip, see help luasnip-loaders

lua
-- will exclude all javascript snippets require("luasnip.loaders.from_vscode").load { exclude = { "javascript" }, }

Showcase

HTML

HTML gif

JS

JS gif

TODO

  • Add all included snippets to the
    Wiki.

Thanks to all contributors

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Credits

A good portion of the snippets have been forked from the following repositories:

Contributors

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