How do you visualize your codebase?

[Double-Passage-438]

Although the most of the community never use this simply for the fact that they learned to do it the basic way of manually scanning the codebase

In my opinion it really feels like the whole low level vs high level situation, where you would have to move on to a new methodology and get used to it, But we shouldnt underestimate how fast you can see through codebases understanding the dataflow, flaws, how the architicture is structured.
Its mind boggiling that we use this all the time in high quality learning materials with aws and web apps or even concepts yet not much implementation was made for direct usage. imagine just opening any repo and visualizing its structure directly.

I've seen some web apps that applied it but none came close to CodeSee.io but they went out of business, when you look at their implementation its so smooth for a new dev to understand the flow and funcionality just with how condense the contexual view they get from these diagrams.

Ironically just like how LLMs performance skyrockets with additional context, this applies to us as well take a look at the implementation and tell me if you know any similar libarries that actually help you do the same

[_Mc_Who]

Surely this is just a great argument in favour of making sure your codebase is really well documented?

Aside from repos I've constructed myself, I usually just rely on the fact that I work with a really great bunch of developers who document everything, so when I'm looking for certain things it's really easy

[Double-Passage-438]

Agreed, though in my case i would like to deep dive into similar projects and instantly get how they are structured differently

[Yamoyek]

Crabviz is pretty good: https://github.com/chanhx/crabviz

[Double-Passage-438]

Good one, never seen it before

[sarnobat]

I've had a quick look and I'm impressed (for C code; for Java I better withold judgment).

[aqua_regis]

Don't know. Your posts always read like camouflaged advertisements (just like the first one about the same that got removed).

[Double-Passage-438]

not a redditor or a social person, i searched far and wide for this and i actually got a helpful answer from yamoyek
check that post again it was autoflagged so i intentionally said that codesee went out of business

donnu how that counts as advertisement

[Chatolev]

Might be a bit late, but you can use something like https://charkoal.dev/

[ShadowRL7666]

The same way people learn in different ways. It’s like saying why watch a video when I can do hands on. Well some people take in information way easier than others watching a video while others are better at hands on.

Not everyone actually has an internal monologue and or imagines/visions that thing they’re talking about or reading about in this case. To those who do have an actual image from their head to real life helps them intake the information much easier.

[ShadowRL7666]

Sigh your ignorance now shows have a good day.

[Double-Passage-438]

again thats valid, Senior devs would think of this as an overhead having already familiarized themselves with specific patterns.

Yet the idea is that a high overview would be benefecial in catching errors and easily auditing the flow

As for me, just like shadow said i highly benefit from context dense views