# rafamadriz/friendly-snippets

Set of preconfigured snippets for different languages.

Repository: https://github.com/rafamadriz/friendly-snippets
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/friendly-snippets
Language: Lua
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: snippets, friendly-snippets, languages, programming-languages
Last push: 2026-01-23T15:29:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 61/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 63, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1985, "days_push": 222, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2769, forks 567 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:18.863711+00:00)

## What it is
A community-driven collection of preconfigured code snippets for many programming languages, packaged in VS Code snippet format. It is designed to be loaded by Neovim/Vim snippet engines such as LuaSnip, vim-vsnip, and coc-snippets.

## Use cases
- add code snippets for many languages to neovim
- get preconfigured snippets for luasnip
- load vscode-style snippets in vim
- one central snippet collection for all programming languages
- add framework snippets like rails to ruby filetype
- exclude certain language snippets from loading

## When to choose
- you use Neovim or Vim with a VS Code-compatible snippet engine and want a broad, maintained snippet set out of the box
- you want one community-maintained repository of snippets instead of installing many per-language snippet plugins
- you want optional framework-specific snippets (e.g. Rails, React) that can be attached to filetypes

## When to avoid
- you use an editor or snippet engine that cannot load VS Code JSON snippet format
- you need highly customized, personal snippets rather than a general community collection
- you work in an IDE like VS Code or JetBrains that already ships its own snippet ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: stable
- function: developer-tools, editor
- domain: developer-tools, text-editors, programming-languages
- platform: editor-plugin, cross-platform
- tags: snippets, neovim, vim, vscode-snippets, autocomplete

## Member repositories
- rafamadriz/friendly-snippets (main) score 61

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.863711+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:16:41.509945+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rafamadriz/friendly-snippets (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.863711+00:00, sha 4691bf85e2fd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.