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The portion of the code in charge of rendering lives inside the `internal/entropy` (https://github.com/gabotechs/dep-tree/tree/main/internal/ent...).
Force-directed is an algorithm for displaying graphs in a 2d or 3d space, which simulates attraction/repulsion based on the dependencies between the nodes, the wikipedia page explains it really well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force-directed_graph_drawing
> Love it, I think dependency trees are super underused data for static analysis.
Definitely, specially for evaluating "the big picture" of a codebase
A tangentially related tool you can use to look at a repo over time is Git of Theseus[1]. It shows things like "what percentage of the code in this repo survives 6 months.
[1]https://erikbern.com/2016/12/05/the-half-life-of-code.html
This is really cool. And as OP pointed out, I really like the pipeline integration. Like when linting catches function-level complexity, but in a cross functional way. I prefer to think of programs in layers where the top layers can import lower layers, but never the other way (and also very cautious on horizontal imports). Something like this would help track that.
From the visualization perspective, it reminds me a lot of Gource. Gource is a cool visualization showing contributions to a repo. You see individual contributors buzzing around updating files on per-commit and per-merge.
https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource
Perfect, that worked, thank you!
I thought this could be solved by changing the directory to src/ and then executing that command, but this didn't work.
This also seems to be an issue with the web app, e.g. the repository for the formatter black is only one white dot https://dep-tree-explorer.vercel.app/api?repo=https://github...