Patch the `reactClassComponentPropTypes` snippet to define `propTypes` as static class property

vscode-react-patch.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

/**
 * Node.js script as patch method for vscode-react extension of 2.2.0 version.
 *
 *  https://github.com/xabikos/vscode-react
 *  https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-public-fields
 */

const fs = require('fs');

const { SNIPPETS_PATH, HOME } = process.env;

const PATH =
    SNIPPETS_PATH ||
    `${HOME}/.vscode/extensions/xabikos.reactsnippets-2.2.0/snippets/snippets.json`;

const SNIPPETS_PATCH = {
    reactClassComponentPropTypes: {
        prefix: 'rccp',
        body:
            "import React, { Component } from 'react';\nimport PropTypes from 'prop-types';\n\nclass ${1:${TM_FILENAME_BASE}} extends Component {\n\t\tstatic propTypes = {\n\n\t\t};\n\t\t\n\t\trender() {\n\t\t\treturn (\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t$0\n\t\t\t\t</div>\n\t\t\t);\n\t}\n}\n\nexport default ${1:${TM_FILENAME_BASE}};",
        description:
            'Creates a React component class with PropTypes as static property and ES6 module system',
    },
};

try {
    const snippets_original = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(PATH));
    const snippets_patched = JSON.stringify({
        ...snippets_original,
        ...SNIPPETS_PATCH,
    });
    fs.writeFileSync(PATH, snippets_patched);
    console.log('Patch success!');
} catch (error) {
    console.error('Error while patcing vs-code-react extension.');
    console.error(error);
    console.error('Patch failed! No changes made.');
    process.exit(0);
}

Recommended Node.js version is v10.9.0.

You can execute this script right from your Terminal:

export SCRIPT_URL=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/junkycoder/5544e8338fc6a424ee010e1facb1c672/raw/c5f23a67abcfbd32badbccc277bbe9938571bc97/vscode-react-patch.js
node <(curl -s $SCRIPT_URL)