Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase

• Gource

  81 11,119 0.0 C++

  software version control visualization

I find that it's useful not just to look at the current contents of codebase, but how it has evolved over time. For example, after being onboarded, this lets me see where most of the current effort on a codebase is concentrated and what the biggest recent changes have been.

For this, i believe that Gource is a lovely tool, which you can just point at a Git repository and it will visualize it: https://gource.io/

• racket

  188 4,695 9.7 Racket

  The Racket repository

  

Clicky: https://octo.github.com/projects/repo-visualization

I tried with https://github.com/racket/racket and for some reason it puts all the content of the subfolder "racket"/"src" in a vertical strip near the middle of the circle instead of spreading the parts evenly. How is each part arranged?

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Sourcetrail

  46 12,302 7.0 C++

  Discontinued Sourcetrail - free and open-source interactive source explorer

  

The best tool I found for exploring code bases and navigating large projects is https://www.sourcetrail.com/.

• vircadia-native-core

  38 533 7.9 C++

  Vircadia open source agent-based metaverse ecosystem.

  

That sounds interesting, can you give more details about that?

I work on Vircadia (https://vircadia.com/) and have been thinking for a while that it would be cool to have in-world visualizations of things like the project's structure and github activity. It's a big one, so perhaps the right 3D representation would make the project's structure more understandable at a glance.

• WhiteBeam

  1 96 0.0 Rust

  WhiteBeam: Transparent endpoint security

  

Took a look at my own codebase, which is 99% Rust. All gray, I'm guessing Rust isn't currently a recognized file type? Either way, very nice! I currently use the "dirtree" tool to generate diagrams like this of my codebase for documentation: https://github.com/WhiteBeamSec/WhiteBeam/wiki/Code-layout

• pfff

  6 2,422 0.0 OCaml

  Discontinued Tools for code analysis, visualizations, or style-preserving source transformation.

  

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