This is incredibly useful!
Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
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Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#32Nice, I wanted to build something similar for a long time. The coolest thing is to start summarising clusters for very large codebases, which essentially provides an LoD system for the context.
We were thinking of creating an MCP Server that could integrate well with the visualizer extension so that you'd understand the cluster visually and descriptively, so watch out for that! :)
X: @Davellele
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#33Quite enjoying the idea as I have been looking for something like this for a while but it is reallllllly slow for our medium sized codebase, I have like 2 or 3 fps on my M1: https://github.com/colour-science/colour/tree/develop/colour
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#34I've been having great success with LLMs generating Mermaid diagrams and flowcharts from a repo. Claude Code and Cursor both do consistently great jobs. For example: `generate a mermaid swimlanes diagram of the XX logic flow`.
This is what I do previously too! The problem that I realize with them is that mermaid diagrams and flowcharts are static and sometimes oversimplified.
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#35I always liked the idea having relationship based programming (graph programming), but with actual code. Never actually made the effort to make something like that. Pretty neat either way.
Thanks! Shoot me a message if you would like to have something added :)
X: @Davellele
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#36From your first page, this looks cool and needed. But as others have posted, I can't get to your github pages.
Will make it open source soon!
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#37Only JS, TypeScript, and Python. You got me all excited for a C visualizer!
Will definitely come!
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#38I definitly think more tools like this are needed, but not open sourcing it is a mistake. You will be quickly replaced by a friendlier competitor.
We will make it open source soon! Follow me on X (@Davellele) to be updated when we do :)
Thats good to hear but what are you waiting for?
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#39Really cool! I'm also dabbling with this idea. The biggest challenge I find is to reduce noise. Large codebases come with a lot of cruft. Surfacing every small detail in the visualization tends to make it messy and less useful. I've not seen contemporary tools tackle this, but think can be useful.
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#40Very nice!