Snippets allow you to reuse content within a component, without extracting it out into a separate file.

In this exercise, we’re creating a table of the three wise monkeys, along with their unicode escape sequences and HTML entities. So far, we have but a single monkey.

We could duplicate the markup, of course. Or we could create an array of { emoji, description } objects and pass it into an {#each ...} block. But a neater solution is to encapsulate the markup in a reusable block.

Begin by declaring a snippet:

{#snippet monkey()}
	<tr>
		<td>{emoji}</td>
		<td>{description}</td>
		<td>\u{emoji.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)}\u{emoji.charCodeAt(1).toString(16)}</td>
		<td>&amp#{emoji.codePointAt(0)}</td>
	</tr>
{/snippet}

The monkey is no longer visible until we render it. Let’s do that:

<tbody>
	{#snippet monkey()}...{/snippet}

	{@render monkey()}
</tbody>

Before we can use the snippet for the rest of our monkeys, we need to pass data into the snippet. Snippets can have zero or more parameters:

<tbody>
	{#snippet monkey(emoji, description)}...{/snippet}

	{@render monkey('🙈', 'see no evil')}
</tbody>

You can also use destructured parameters, if you like.

Add the rest of the monkeys:

• '🙈', 'see no evil'
• '🙉', 'hear no evil'
• '🙊', 'speak no evil'

Finally, delete the <script> block we no longer need it:

<script>
	let emoji = '🙈';
	let description = 'see no evil';
</script>

Snippets can be declared anywhere in your component, but, like functions, are only visible to render tags in the same ‘scope’ or a child scope.