🚀 CodeBoarding – Abstract Code Visualization
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.
🌟 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.
0.8.1 (Current version)
- Export Diagram as Image - Export your current diagram as a PNG image directly from the toolbar or context menu.
- Component Annotations - Add personal notes to any component in the details panel. Annotations persist across sessions.
- Smarter Context Copying - Granular control over what gets copied: description, annotation, highlighted code, and source files with line-range awareness.
- Improved Unused Code Detection - Categorized unused code findings (variables, imports, functions, parameters) replacing generic orphan code detection, powered by LSP diagnostics.
- Faster & Parallelized Analysis - Static analysis steps now run in parallel with improved caching for significantly faster results.
- Expanded LLM Support - Added prompt templates for DeepSeek, GLM, and Kimi model families.
- Windows Stability - Uses VSCode's own Node.js process for reliable binary execution across platforms.
0.8.0
- 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 analytics with version/platform metadata
- Added lifecycle events tracking (start/cancel/success/fail)
0.3.0
- Local development configuration improvements
- 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
- Fixed bug for TypeScript on MacOS
0.2.0
- Initial release featuring core abstract visualization capabilities
- Support for Python and JavaScript/TypeScript projects
- Supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
- Integrated with and using Gemini 2.5-flash
🎉 Enjoy exploring your code with CodeBoarding!
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