15 of the Best Code Snippet Repositories and Resources for Designers

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11 Mar 2010
Code Repositories allow you to store any code snippets of your choice either to host, share, or to ask for feedback. A large portion of developers store their different codes on their computers within different folders for later use. Why not save the space on your hard drive and have your snippet gain exposure by submitting it to one of several code repositories that exist?
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Just as you’re able to find strings of codes and answers to your coding needs when you need to, share your codes with other developers and help each other out.

Snippet repositories are a great way to satisfy most of your developing needs, and also one of the simplest ways to get answers to questions you may have about certain codes and programming languages. Take a look around at the repositories we’ve compiled for you and let us know which ones appeal to you the most.

Smipple


Smipple is what’s called the repository for social media. You’re able to quickly search through 100′s’ of snippets both popular and new. Save your favorites, submit your own snippets, and search through snippet specific tags and keywords.

Stack Overflow


Stack Overflow is one of the most sought after sites for finding, posting, and asking for code snippets. Users are able to comment, vote, and search for questions based on tags, how old/new the question may be, and if it has been answered or not.

Tipster


Tipster lets you share tips and code snippets with other developers and designers. Then you’re able to easily search and find what you’re looking for as well. Tipster was created and is maintained by Casonified.

Design Reviver Answers


Design Reviver Answers is a place where designers and developers come together to ask and answer valuable questions. You’re able to share your questions with everyone through with the power of social media giants such as Twitter and Facebook, and their advanced search functions (tags, keywords) makes it a great interactive site for designers.

Snipplr


Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. Best of all, it lets you share your code snippets with other coders and designers. Snipplr was developed by the same clever people who built Raven’s Internet Marketing Tools for SEO and Social Media Marketing.

Snipt


Snipt is your collection of frequently used commands or code snippets. It’s good for storing small pieces of code or commands that you use rather frequently, and will probably forget. You can also search the entire Snipt databas to find the code that’s right for the project at hand.

Joyent CodeSnippets


Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world (or not, you can keep them private!)

DZone Snippets


DZone Snippets lets you tag your code and share them with whomever you’d like. Being a public code repository means they mostly cover a wide range of web development and desktop programming subjects. Start searching for your snippets today.

byteMyCode


byteMyCode is a project designed to make the task of sharing source code easier. byteMyCode serves as a good organizational tool for those little code snippets that you never know when you will need. It also comes in handy when you need to send a code snippet to a friend or coworker, but don’t have the means to do so.

CodeCodex


CodeCodex is a wiki for finding and improving code. Use CodeCodex to browse and use pre-written code, learn new algorithms and methods for common programming tasks, use code in your own projects and submit new code for the community, and more.

Refactor My Code


Refractor My Code is a great and useful place to have someone look over and check your code to make sure everything’s functioning correctly. You can either post code, or conduct searches for codes.

Krugle


Krugle is a powerful code search engine that continuously catalogs over 3000 open source projects. Krugle Enterprise is a source code sharing, access and discovery solution used by leading software development organizations.

Github


Github is one of the most popular code snippet repositories on the web. It contains large quantities of various codes in several different languages. You’re also able to quickly browse existing repositories by size, keywords, and more.

Google Code Search


Google seems to have expanded into almost every niche online, including web development. With Google Code Search users can search public source codes across the entire web for a more accurate result on what you’re looking for.

Snippets


This is a snippet repository project created and hosted by Jonas John. It contains several valuable code repositories that may be able to help you out on our next project. It currently has over 160 code snippets that range from C#, Visual Basic, Plain HTML, JavaScript, and more (although most of the snippets are for PHP).

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5 Responses to 15 of the Best Code Snippet Repositories and Resources for Designers

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March 15th, 2010 at 11:50 pm

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March 20th, 2010 at 12:21 pm

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March 21st, 2010 at 9:20 pm

software problem… i dont know if your windows are genuine… if it is, call support… the vista is the monster of microsoft , nobody there want to talk about . Or you go back to xp until the problems of 7 have the corrections…(lab test with real people) or go to xp… if you try Ubuntu you dont have viroses and adwares… try Ubuntu with other windows stuff and be happy…

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March 27th, 2010 at 1:20 am

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Mike / Big Mac

March 27th, 2010 at 7:42 am

It's simpler than myspace, and its 10 times easier to find your friends.
Oh, and also its a lot safer too.

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