code-maat VS Blitz

Get a copy of "Your code as a crime scene", then check out two GitHub repos

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat

https://github.com/smontanari/code-forensics

He also wrote Your Code as a Crime Scene and authored the open source tool, Code Maat. I've found both extremely useful in my current job where I took over a code base with immense technical debt.

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat

It's not as neat as that unfortunately. You use this to extract different data from the version control history: https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat

Then visualize it however. I have some d3 scripts that came with the book that I've modified and you can track down somewhere on github I'm pretty sure. I mostly use those for demoing it to devs unfamiliar with the techniques though, since it looks cool and is immediately obvious what it's for.

For serious use I dump it into sqlite and use a mix of different scripts and techniques to figure it out. It's been kind of a language playground for me over the years so is in a lot of different languages and is "learning code" in most of them. Cleaning them up and sharing is one of those "maybe some day" things though.

After searching a bit more, it seems like https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat is a great tool

The tool code-complexity is closely coupled to JavaScript and TypeScript-based codebases. For other languages like Java, C#, Python, or PHP there are other tools, but one tool that is generic and works for most of the codebases is code-maat. It is a tool created by the author of the book mentioned in the chapter before.

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat#Usage

Blitz is also an open-source project that allows users to access the code and allows to contribute. Their community has generated a lot of impact as well, and has grown rapidly over time since the creation in 2020:

Not yet, I actually just whipped it up quickly last week after I was browsing the Notion subreddit and it reminded me of myspace.

These are the tools I used:

* BlitzJS (https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz)

Maybe you could help/join this project? https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz

Hello, I'm the creator of Blitz.js (first announced 2.5 years ago)

Today the Blitz.js 2.0 pivot to a modular Next.js toolkit reached Beta status [1]

Previously Blitz abstracted Next.js, but Blitz 2.0 is now a modular toolkit that plugs into any new or existing Next.js app. Blitz picks up where Next.js leaves off, providing libraries and conventions for shipping and scaling small to large apps.

When I first created Blitz, my aim was to have an all-in-one fullstack framework for Javascript like Ruby on Rails. But that proved to be too difficult. I've decided that achieving an all-in-one framework for JS like Rails is too difficult unless you have a ton of funding and don't have to make meaningful money.

The difference with JS is that client-side frameworks like React have an incredible amount of complexity. Trying to manage all of that and all the other fullstack framework stuff like API layers, auth, file uploads, etc is too large of scope.

So now Blitz is no longer trying to do it all and is focusing on all the non-frontend functionality you need to ship web apps.

Going forward, we want to be the most trusted technical resource for rapidly building and scaling full-stack TypeScript apps.

[1] https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.1