Ability to save, edit and use snippets

[nickjl]

I'm currently trying to use the app for our marketing team to create emails without having to come through the development team and without them having to using gulp.

The main thing that's preventing this is the lack of a snippets feature. I feel it would be extremely useful to be able to set up snippets to ensure that anyone using the app that's not very technical doesn't miss any important attributes out.

Is there any scope for this to happen?

Thanks

[meriadec]

That's interesting. Do you know libraries that could help bring that? Feel free to do a little POC that we could iterate on!

[nickjl]

Hi @meriadec,

I thought along the same lines as Atoms snippets could be good, just needing to edit one snippets.cson file to add them.

https://github.com/atom/snippets and https://github.com/atom/autocomplete-snippets

I'll have a further dig around too :)

[jbickelhaupt]

I'm adding a +1 for some kind of Snippets feature. Just spoke with @meriadec and @nico about this yesterday over Slack.

My design team would LOVE to have somewhere to bookmark little pieces of code that they use on a regular basis in different emails—whether it be certain logos, 2-column section layouts, or specific headlines or text. I'm trying to get them out of Adobe Dreamweaver (which has this feature too) and into the MJML desktop app for full-time development.

[meriadec]

@ngarnier any ideas of ideal workflow to handle snippets? 😉

[ngarnier]

@meriadec, yes! Here is how I imagine that:

1. Add a "snippets" entry in the builder
2. When the user goes to the snippets area, they can:

• See created snippets
• Create a new one by providing:
  • a name
  • a trigger
  • a content

3. Each time the user types the trigger and clicks tab in the builder, the trigger is replaced by the content

Pending questions:

• Where should the "snippets" entry be? To me, it makes most sense in the "Settings" area of the app as the dropdown is really action-orented
• Should we enforce a syntax, or accept any kind of trigger?
• Where should we store the snippets, settings.json?

[ngarnier]

Released with v2.9.0!