Visual Studio Code user snippets not working

I've enabled the default "log" snippet in VS Code. I also added another snippet. Neither show up when I type their prefixes. I have set editor.tabCompletion to true.

Any idea why these don't work?

There are a couple of ways you can fix this problem. The problem is Intellisense is getting in the way or default putting your snippets at the bottom of the list.

First I played with the suggestion delay, but then I settled on having Intellisense put my snippets in the top of the list of suggestions with the snippetSuggestions user preference:

{
  "editor.tabCompletion": true,
  "editor.snippetSuggestions": "top"
}

Sometimes the obvious that gets overlooked first. Upon starting VSCode and creating a new document (Ctrl + N) it may come as a surprise that the snippets do not work. Check in the bottom right hand corner of the VSCode editor as per default a 'Plain Text' file is presented. Change the file type to your favourite language with snippets.

This may overcome some unnecessary trouble shooting ;-)

If you are trying to insert PHP snippets, its worth noting the you must manually include the

<?php

before the snippets will start to work.

For react with typescript, I had to specifically add 'typescriptreact' to the scope.

 "scope": "javascript, typescript, typescriptreact"