An (unpublished) lil VSCode extension to create a new file in the current workspace with a name generated from a template.

I have bound it to a keybinding

{
    "key": "cmd+m cmd+n",
    "command": "mextn.new"
},

so I can just use ⌘ M ⌘ N to create a new file quickly. It'll reuse the extension of the most recent existing file.

There is also support for picking the file extension based on the defaultLanguage in workspace settings. The list of file types it supports this way can be manually modified in src/extension.ts.

Installing

Install dependencies using

yarn

Then, you can run then this extension directly from source by doing

yarn dev

This creates a temporary .vsix binary file and installs it to your local VS Code instance. After making changes in the code, you can re-run yarn dev to update the installation; in this case, remember to use the VS Code "Developer: Reload Window" command after running yarn dev (this seems to be needed to get the running VS Code window to pick up changes).