CodeBoarding helps you visualize and navigate your codebase effortlessly. Gain instant clarity with interactive, abstract visual maps generated directly from your code.
Note: CodeBoarding is actively in development. We'd love your suggestions or feedback! Connect with us at contact@codeboarding.org or submit via our feedback form.
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🌟 Features
Abstract Code Map: Get a high-level, easy-to-understand overview of your entire codebase.
Interactive Exploration: Click and dive deeper into your components to understand relationships and structures.
Clear Descriptions: Automatically generated, concise explanations of your components.
Direct Code Links: Seamlessly jump from visual nodes to your source code for ultimate clarity.
Context for AI Tools: Enhance your AI coding assistants with rich context from your codebase, by copying components or entire maps to your clipboard.
Realtime Component Change tracking: Monitor your agent's actions by seeing which components have file edits in them.
🔒 Data Privacy
Your security and privacy matter.
Local Processing: Code analysis and graph creation occur locally on your machine.
Secure API Calls: Data sent directly to Gemini API; we never see or store your information.
✅ Requirements
VSCode
A codebase you want to analyze
For Java projects: Java 21 or later must be installed (Download here)
📌 Release Notes
Stay updated as we continuously improve CodeBoarding.
0.8.0 (Current version)
Iterative/Incremental Analysis - Expand components in-place to explore subgraphs while keeping the high-level view. Dramatically faster updates by analyzing only impacted flows.
Health Checks & Code Quality Warnings - Automatic detection of code quality issues including:
Dead/orphan code (unreachable functions)
Oversized functions (god functions)
Circular dependencies between packages
Interactive Component Expansion - Click to expand components directly in the diagram or use the "Full View" button for deeper analysis.
Health Warning Indicators - Visual badges on nodes showing warning counts with detailed findings in the details panel.
Improved Static Analysis - Fixed bugs in clustering algorithms (Leiden), performance optimizations, and better reference validation.
0.7.1
Improved accuracy - added a validation step with the static analysis.
Static analysis caching - avoids recalculating the CFG.
0.7.0
Added support for Java - Full support for visualizing Java projects
.codeboardingignore support - Filter out unwanted files and directories with a simple ignore file
Improved Generation - Faster and higher quality in-depth component analysis
CodeBoarding Pro - Unlimited generation plan available
0.6.1
Vercel API Integration - Added support for Vercel API key configuration for enhanced AI model access
Improved Diagram Accuracy - Enhanced diagram generation algorithm for more precise component relationships and visualization
Faster Generation - Optimized analysis pipeline for significantly reduced diagram generation time
0.6.0
Detailed Analysis Mode - New option to run comprehensive three-level analysis for deeper insights
Configurable Analysis Depth - Control the depth of analysis to balance detail and execution time
Advanced Clustering - Smarter code organization using multiple clustering algorithms (Louvain, Leiden, greedy modularity) for better component grouping, especially for small codebases
Faster Static Analysis - Reduced single file analysis time from 6 minutes to 1 minute for quicker feedback
Updated AI Models - Upgraded to Claude 3.0 Flash and 2.5 Flash for better analysis quality
Analysis Timeouts - Set timeout limits for LLM calls to prevent unbounded execution and hours-long hangs
Proper node_modules exclusion - Fixed issue where node_modules were being analyzed, significantly reducing analysis time and improving accuracy
Ignore Derivative Files - Now properly excludes minified and bundled files (.min.js, .bundle.js) from analysis
Enhanced Logging - Cleaner, more organized logs with reduced redundancy
0.5.0
Wait view during analysis - Added a loading view with progress indication while analysis is running
Maximize button - New button to maximize the diagram view for better visualization
Improved logs - Enhanced logging for better debugging and troubleshooting
Theme colors fix - Fixed theme color issues for better consistency with VSCode themes
0.4.0
Added extension settings - Configure your preferred API keys and model directly in VSCode settings
Current component highlighting - The active component is now highlighted based on the currently open file
UI improvements: Fixed the "Fit to Screen" button for better diagram navigation
0.3.3
Fixed handling of modified files with non-unique names
Improved file matching algorithm for better accuracy
0.3.2
Added support for PHP - Now supporting PHP projects in addition to Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Go
Stability updates
0.3.1
Improved Python dependency handling (pyright is now a VSCode dependency)
Enhanced debugging capabilities for extension development
0.2.10
Improved UI clarity — diagram edges no longer overlap with nodes or other edges
General UI refinements to improve readability during diagram navigation
0.2.9
Enhanced Static Analysis algorithm
Stabilized and made diagram generation more deterministic
Updated on-boarding information for new users in our UI
Now built for Visual Studio Code 1.99+ (Cursor compatible)
0.2.8
Stability updates.
Minimal anonymized analytics: we collect only non-identifying metadata (timestamp, anonymized user_id and repo, language, lines, file extension, exit_code, short stdout/stderr previews and lengths, platform) to help us fix issues. No source code or file contents are sent, nor any sort of personal information.
0.2.7
Added support for GO
Fully anonymous analytics which send us number of lines analyzed in what programming stack with an annoynmoys id.
0.2.4
Stability updates and bug fixes for Windows and TypeScript
Better error handling for missing/not-found TypeScript configuration files.
0.2.2
Stability updates and bug fixes around state selection
