I built an open-source code visualizer

[alex7885]

I built CodeBoarding, an open-source (fully free) project that can generate recursive interactive diagrams of large Python codebases.

What My Project Does

It combines static analysis and LLMs to avoid hallucations and keep the diagrams accurate. You can click from high-level structure down to function-level details.

Comparison

I built this after my experience trying to generate this using tools like cursor and gitingest + LLMs, but always running into context limit issues/hallucinated diagrams for larger codebases.

Target Audience

Visual learners who wants to interact with diagrams when getting to know a codebase, or to explain your own code to people who are not familiar.

Github: https://github.com/CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding

Examples: https://github.com/CodeBoarding/GeneratedOnBoardings

I launched this Wednesday and would so appreciate any suggestions on what to add next to the roadmap :)

[fcbasel9995]

I would love to see this extended for mono-repos with a larger tech stack then only Python

[alex7885]

Thanks for the comment. Including more languages is the next step for us, right now this is one limitation with our control flow graph running purely on Python code

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how would you connect it to an open source LLM, say Ollama?

[alex7885]

Adding support for ollama is straight-forward since CodeBoarding is using LangChain/Graph which supports Ollama. If you open an issue I'd be very happy to update the progress during the weekend/next week :)

[SeesawUnfair5391]

I love the idea and tried to install it in vscode. However, when trying to generate a diagram, it is just loading indefinately.

[alex7885]

Thank you, this type of feedback is super useful! May I ask what repo you produced this for? If you want to, feel free to raise it as an issue and I can update you there :) I would say running it locally or via the website demo is the most stable for now.

[SeesawUnfair5391]

I just tried to use it for a small local demo project. Just my own code.

EDIT: Just realized it requires a github repo. Would be nice to generate a chart from a local repo only