Ask HN: In-editor visual mind map/graph tool for code?

• Code-Flow-Extension

  4 17 1.5 TypeScript

  VS Code Extension to map code flow output as a diagram

I'd love a tool that lets me manually create maps/graphs between files/modules/functions in code and be able to jump between nodes. What would be even cooler is LSP support so that if code changed, the tool would be able to keep the map/graph up-to-date.

So far the closest thing I can find is a VS Code extension: https://github.com/Pjaerr/Code-Flow-Extension

Apparently there also used to be a tool/service called "Grok" that is now dead and the original domain redirects to spam: https://web.archive.org/web/20210812070223/https://www.trygrok.com/

Has anyone come across a tool like this recently?

• emerge

  5 726 5.9 Python

  Emerge is a browser-based interactive codebase and dependency visualization tool for many different programming languages. It supports some basic code quality and graph metrics and provides a simple and intuitive way to explore and analyze a codebase by using graph structures.

Slightly off topic & very resource intensive diy approach without using an IDE:

Take advantage of an editor's use of on disk file as a buffer[0]. Monitor the editor file buffer for changes[1]. Trigger regeneration of a map/graph update & redisplay changes[2] in different window.

[0] : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71822798/what-exactly-ar...

[1] : watchdog : https://pypi.org/project/watchdog/

[2] : emerge-vis : https://github.com/glato/emerge

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