The latest articles on DEV Community by Mikatoshi (@mikatoshi). https://dev.to/mikatoshi https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4068961%2F47af1315-5d0d-4d42-a3f3-0960a352edfc.png https://dev.to/mikatoshi en Mikatoshi Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:01:48 +0000 https://dev.to/mikatoshi/arclux-dependency-graph-impact-analysis-for-your-codebase-mi https://dev.to/mikatoshi/arclux-dependency-graph-impact-analysis-for-your-codebase-mi <p><a href="https://github.com/GSF-001/ARCLUX" rel="noopener noreferrer">OPEN SOURCE👇</a></p> <p>I've been building ARCLUX — a repository intelligence tool (CLI + web dashboard) that maps your codebase into a dependency graph, traces impact ("what breaks if I touch this file?"), and runs 18 structural detectors (circular deps, dead code, orphan files, layer violations, etc).</p> <p><strong>Verified at meaningful scale</strong> — microsoft/vscode, facebook/react, and vitejs/vite all analyze successfully, not just small toy fixtures.</p> <p><strong>Language support:</strong></p> <ul> <li>TypeScript, JavaScript, Python — full support</li> <li>Go, Java — parsing works, but same-package calls with no import statement (common in both languages) aren't resolved as edges yet</li> </ul> <p><strong>Honest state (this is <code>v0.1.0-alpha</code>):</strong></p> <ul> <li>Very large/unusual repos (10k+ files, heavy monorepos) can currently time out or fail without a clear error — no size guard or progress streaming yet, that's next</li> <li>Some packages (search, persistent caching) are still stubs</li> </ul> <p>I'm not trying to compete with enterprise tooling — this started as a personal project to actually understand codebases I work in, and it grew from there.</p> <p>Would love feedback, bug reports, or PRs if any of this is useful to you.</p> webdev devops python opensource