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Animesh Manna
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I Built Structviz — A Tool to Visualize GitHub Repositories as Interactive Diagrams

Understanding a new codebase can be painful.

Folders inside folders. Files everywhere. Who touched what? Where does this module connect?

So I built Structviz — a tool that turns GitHub repositories into interactive visual diagrams so developers can explore architecture, collaboration, and structure at a glance.

What Structviz Does

Structviz helps you:
• 🔍 Visualize repositories as graphs
• 🔄 Change node directions & layouts
• ✏️ Click nodes to open and edit files
• 👥 See the last contributor with hover details
• 📊 Analyze collaborator activity with percentages & charts
• 🎨 Switch between multiple themes

The goal is simple: help developers understand complex projects faster — especially when onboarding, refactoring, or auditing architecture.

Why I Built This

I work with large repositories often, and every time I joined a new project I wished for a faster way to see the system instead of mentally mapping folders and files.

Structviz started as that idea — and slowly grew into something I now use myself.

Try It Out

You can check it here:
👉 https://structviz.com

I’d genuinely love feedback from the dev community — feature ideas, UX suggestions, or things you think are missing.

If you maintain open-source projects, I’m especially curious whether this would help contributors onboard faster.

Thanks for reading 🙌
Happy building.

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