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Description/Goal
In short reading code is hard. The goal of Project Atlas is to make code easier to understand by creating a visual map of how the a project interacts with itself through direct analysis of its implementation.
Features
- A basic visualization of all files in a Java project and how they interact with each other through external file references
- Analysis of Java code to identify external method calls and field initializations
- Serialization of a directory tree into a JSON format
Languages & Tools
- Java
- JavaParser
- Jackson JSON Serializer
- Maven
- TypeScript
- React
- VSCode Extension API
- Visual Studio Code Extension
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Highlights
- A combination of information design and program analysis to make code easier to understand
- Easy to install VSCode Extensio
- Panning and Zooming around the visualization
What we learned
- Analysis of code quickly becomes complicated since not everything is known until runtime
- The amount of work that goes into code analysis tools
