File Templates Manager for VSCode allows you to manage your file templates and generate files from them.

File Template Manager is powerful extension with following features that improve your productivity and do routine work for you.

• {{ }} - evaluation
• {{= }} - interpolation
• {{! }} - interpolation with encoding
• {{# }} - compile-time evaluation/includes and partials
• {{## #}} - compile-time defines
• {{? }} - conditionals
• {{~ }} - array iteration

Full Documentation of doT template engine

Variables available by default

• DIR - directory of created file
• NAME - name from input prompt
• FILE - NAME + template extension
• FILE_PATH - DIR + FILE
• USER - name of user
• DATE - date of file creation

Evaluation and interpolation example for HTML file

{{ for(let i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) }}
<div>Item {{=i}}</div>

result is

<div>Item 0</div>
<div>Item 1</div>
<div>Item 2</div>
<div>Item 3</div>
<div>Item 4</div>
<div>Item 5</div>
<div>Item 6</div>
<div>Item 7</div>
<div>Item 8</div>
<div>Item 9</div>

Select prompt example for C# language file

using System;

{{#def.select('TYPE', 'Select file type', ['class','interface','struct','enum'])}}
/*
  {{=$.NAME}} {{=$.TYPE}}
 */
public {{=$.TYPE}} {{=$.NAME}}
{

}

you will see a prompt

and get result for class type

using System;

/*
  CSharp class
 */
public class CSharp {

}

tsconfig.json example file

{{#def.select('MODULE', 'Specify module code generation', ['none','commonjs','amd','system','umd','es6','es2015','esnext'])}}
{{#def.select('TARGET', 'Specify ECMAScript target version', ['es3','es6','es2016','es2017','esnext'])}}
{{#def.confirm('SOURCE_MAP', 'Should generate corresponding .map file?')}}
{
  "compilerOptions": {
      "module": "{{=$.MODULE}}",
      "target": "{{=$.TARGET}}",
      "sourceMap": {{=$.SOURCE_MAP}}
  },
  "exclude": [
      "node_modules"
  ]
}

This extension contributes the following settings:

• templates.showExplorer: show/hide templates explorer
• templates.customVars: you can define custom variables like AUTHOR, LICENSE, PROJECT and etc