CodeCharta by MaibornWolff
CodeCharta is a beautiful tool to help you visualize and understand code. It can combine code metrics from multiple sources and visualize them using 3D tree maps. CodeCharta's two major parts are:
- analysis: Command-Line-Tool for generating visualization data in the form of
.cc.jsonfiles. It includes some pre-defined importers for e.g. SonarQube, SourceMonitor, SCM log information, generic csv data, as well as a command to validate and merge multiple data files. - visualization: GUI for visualizing the code metrics inside the
.cc.jsonfiles. The file schema is located here and we are using the json-schema v4 format.
You can try the web visualization without any installation and explore the CodeCharta code (shown by default).
The visualization takes a .json file and to generate a new one you need to install the CodeCharta shell (ccsh). The are multiple ways to do so including non-global install. We'll use npm here because it is the most convenient:
npm i -g codecharta-analysis
For this example we'll also assume you want to analyze Junit4. CodeCharta is not limited to java code though.
# Download code base of your choice
git clone https://github.com/junit-team/junit4
# parse sources
ccsh sourcecodeparser junit4 -p junit4 -o junit4.source.cc.json
# done :)You can now load this file (top left corner) either in the web or the local visualization:
npm i -g codecharta-visualization
- If you want to analyze a different language or combine java metrics with git metrics, you should take a look at our Quick-Start Guide.
- If you want to go further we have multiple how-tos. For example they'll explain how to integrate CodeCharta into your delivery pipeline.
- If you want to know more about the ccsh api, please check the ccsh docs.
Have a bug, a feature request or any question? Please open a new issue. Feedback is always welcome.
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