AppMap for Visual Studio Code

Navigate your code more efficiently with interactive, accurate software architecture diagrams right in your IDE. In two minutes you can go from installing this plugin to exploring maps of your code's architecture.

AppMap

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AppMap supports Spring, Django, Flask, and Rails projects. To generate AppMaps you will need to install the AppMap agent for your project.

Run this command from within the top level directory of your project:

npx @appland/appmap install-agent

Requirements

AppMap is intended for mapping web services and web applications, and works seamlessly with these popular frameworks.

Spring

Required Framework version	Required Language version
Spring (any version)	JDK 8+

Django

Required Framework version	Required Language Version
Django v.3.2.x, 2.2.x	Python >=3.6

Flask

Required Framework version	Required Language Version
Flask v.2.0.x	Python >=3.6

Rails

Required Framework version	Required Language Version
Rails Version 5, 6	Ruby 2.6, 2.7, 3

Quickstart

Follow the instructions in the AppMap quickstart guide.

Summary of features

Interactive Code Analyzer that records and processes dynamic execution traces of running code
Dependency Map that displays key application components and how they are interrelated during execution
Execution Trace diagrams that visualize code and data flows:
- Web service endpoints
- Function calls
- SQL commands
- REST calls
- Semantic code labels
List of SQL queries generated automatically from executed code
List of Web services generated automatically from executed code
Direct navigation from diagrams to sources
Filtering by class, package, function or label