As you may probably know Visual Studio Code finally got extensions. This was one huge lacking feature for this amazing editor, currently my daily driver. Fortunately, Microsoft really is listening to the community feedback so they finally introduced an extension manager for Visual Studio Code.

In my last couple of projects, I got to work with an Open Source CMS called Crafter CMS. Crafter CMS uses Apache Freemarker as templating engine. I never used this template engine before and VS Code didn’t have syntax highlight for the ftl files. I had to select the language mode everytime I opened a FreeMarker file. Unfortunately, VS Code doesn’t have an option to default an unknown language type to an existing one. For instance, to make html the default language mode to all ftl files.

With the release of the extensions I decided to implement this extension. The docs are very helpful and the implementation was straight-forward. For now, the extension recognizes the ftl files and highlights the syntax. Hopefully, I will include snippets before publishing it.

You can check the code here.

Happy Holidays 🎄