2 years ago

Category: android, ios, github

As a developer, you’ve likely faced one problem again and again throughout your career: struggling to understand a new codebase. We really are trying to help developers to master the understanding of codebases. We do that by visualizing their code, because we think that a picture is really worth a thousand words, a thousand lines of code,” said CodeSee CEO and co-founder Shanea Leven. What we’re trying to do is really ensure that developers, with all of the code that we have to manage out there — and our codebases have grown exponentially over the past decade — that we can deeply understand how our code works in an instant.”

While the code maps and tours can help with that initial understanding and onboarding, Leven said that it is also important to provide for the continuous understanding of the code base, which they do with pull request diagrams.