Snippets

An iOS app for browsing and searching a code snippet library stored in a Dash-style SQLite database. Open a snippet database via the system document picker, fuzzy-search snippets and tags, and view snippet bodies with syntax highlighting — including Dash placeholder tokens (__placeholder__, @clipboard, @cursor, @time, @date).

Built around 2020–2021 as a personal project; preserved as-is and not actively maintained.

Features

• Opens a Dash-compatible snippets SQLite database (snippets, tags, smartTags, tagsIndex tables) via GRDB
• Fuzzy search powered by Fuse
• Syntax-highlighted snippet view (Sourceful) with a custom lexer for Dash placeholders
• Per-language theme colors derived from GitHub's language color palette
• Reactive MVVM throughout, using RxSwift 6 / RxCocoa

Project Structure

Target	Role
Snippets	Main iOS app (MVVM modules: SnippetList, SnippetDetail)
Entity	GRDB record types (SQLSnippet, SQLTag, SQLSmartTag, SQLTagsIndex)
DashSourceful	Sourceful-based code view + lexer for Dash placeholder syntax
LanguageThemeColor	Language → theme color mapping utilities
RxActivityIndicator	Activity-tracking Rx helper framework
RxPropertyChaining	Rx property-chaining operators
RxPropertyWrapper	@RxProperty / @RxTrigger property wrappers

The Xcode project is generated by XcodeGen (project.yml); dependencies are managed with CocoaPods, tools with Mint, and new MVVM modules are scaffolded with Generamba (Local Templates/rx_mvvm).

Requirements

• Xcode 12.4-era toolchain (iOS deployment target 14.4)
• Mint, CocoaPods, optionally rbenv + Bundler for Generamba

Setup

./setup.sh

This installs Mint/CocoaPods if missing, bootstraps Mint tools (XcodeGen, SwiftLint, SwiftFormat, R.swift, Mockolo), generates Snippets.xcodeproj, runs pod install, and installs the Generamba template. Then open Snippets.xcworkspace.

Note: the Podfile references a private fork (CollectionKit-Swift via SSH), and the toolchain versions are dated — building on a modern setup may require adjustments.