Bloom by adding Python boilerplate templates directly in VS Code.
- Activity bar view “Flowerplate” for quick access
- Tree view of templates showing name, tags and a tooltip preview
- Insert templates at the cursor with one click
- Context-aware messages:
- No file opened
- Only supports Python for now
- No templates available
- Template load failures
- Future roadmap:
- HTML display of templates
- drag & drop
- search/browse UI
- smart suggestions
Tip: consider embedding a short animated GIF here to demonstrate insertion!
If you plan to develop or debug the extension, you’ll need:
- Visual Studio Code ≥ 1.99.0
- Node.js and npm (for building & packaging)
- Running only on Python files at the moment
This extension does not yet expose any user-configurable settings. However, eventually, you will be able to:
- set the variables on the templates yourself
- create your own templates
- disable or enable imports
- 📋 Drag-and-drop support is not available in this version
- 🐛 JSON parsing errors for malformed template files are logged to the console but not surfaced in the UI
- Initial release
- Tooltip previews showing first 20 lines of the template
- Tree view scaffold and click to insert-template
- Status messages for context
- Ability to edit already existing template for yourself
Make sure you’ve reviewed and complied with the VS Code extension best practices:
Enjoy!