Onboard Anyone To Your Codebase

We spend more time trying to understand how code works than writing it. CodeSee’s insights gets you & your team up to speed in days not months.

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Does this story sound familiar?

Count how many times you nod your head.

There’s no one place for anyone that shows how an entire system works.
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There's no shared understanding of how all of the code and functionality map to each other. It’s a huge amount of knowledge for even the most senior developer to retain but it’s practically impossible for a less experienced developer. And onboarding new developers sucks up weeks or more before they're productive.

As an engineer, this experience stinks.
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The code is complex, not well-documented, not easy to understand, has too many interdependencies and edge cases. And, often the people who wrote the code are no longer at the company.

So what do you do?‍

You spend hours or even days just looking for the right place to start. You can try to find the exact person to ask and hope and pray they are still at the company, and it’s not 3am their time because they are in a different time zone. Yet we’re required to efficiently make changes, meet tight deadlines, stringent quality and security requirements, without the tools to understand how it all works.

Even when we do manage to build understanding, teams are shipping new code so fast that your understanding is almost instantly out of date.‍

Over the last ten years, codebases have become 10x more complicated. You are left to figure it out, read the code line by line, and build a mental model for yourself to make some sense of what’s going on ... alone.

What if everyone could instantly understand how all the code works?

The old way of reading code line by line, is failing us. We all need Continuous Understanding to simply manage the amount and velocity of code our teams are pushing each and every day. It’s the missing link to true developer productivity.

Lack of Codebase Understanding Blocks

CodeSee Maps and Recordings help any developer understand your codebase at any step of the development process.

Visually understand code

Our patented visual map provides a new type of view of your system. You understand where to start, what code ran in execution order, and all of the values of the data so you can see what's going on without reading every line of code.

Link your documents to the code

Devs spend more time understanding code than actually writing or changing it. Learn new code by reading a story connected to the code. This unlocks onboarding new developers, fast feature execution & unprecedented debugging.

Share your understanding

Sharing code understanding across your team makes your team more agile, as your developers can work on all the code, not just the code they wrote.

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How Devs Use CodeSee

Open Source and Company Developers use CodeSee to:

Quickly and scalably onboard new contributors or team members to any part of the codebase.

Visualize the whole codebase to uncover unknown unknowns and gain the clarity you need to make fast, accurate decisions about your code.

Have a single, accurate source of truth of the code to layer on architectural knowledge like teams, owners, feature boundaries and more so that everyone is operating from the same mental model.

See a Bird’s-Eye View of Your Code

CodeSee creates a visual map of your codebase that stays up to date with every PR. Your CodeSee Map represents the current state of your codebase: it’s a single source of truth you can rely on.

Gain a mental model of how the whole codebase works together.

Create annotated maps of the code to assign team ownership and capture your understanding.

Share maps with your organization to aid with team collaboration, communication, onboarding, and alignment.

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See Your Change Within the Big Picture

Devs can feel confident that pushing their change won’t break a downstream or shared component.

On every PR, see the inputs and outputs of your change

See how your change affects the larger architecture before you merge.

When when your PR is reviewed, pass along your understanding making code reviews faster and more effective

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Debug Your Code—in Execution Order

Use CodeSee Recordings to see and share a visual flow of your code at runtime. Drill down into which functions were called in what order, and inspect the values of variables at all times. No more mental jumps between files and folders.

Explore important side effects of your code like network requests and responses.

Traverse through looping operations, and time-travel through your data flow in either direction.

Search your recording for any function, variable name, or even runtime values.

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