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How HN took it
6 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 0 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.39.
Idea: 5 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Visually cool and pretty
From 3 comments
Very cool. While I love the look of force-directed-graphs, they wind up representing lots of arbitrary/random values, in all the degrees of freedom of the exact…
gojomo on HNThis is really cool for sure. I can see how it's useful for teaching JavaScript concepts or doing analysis on code. Good job!
gawker on HNThis is pretty awesome, great job.
VeejayRampay on HN
Useful for teaching JavaScript or analyzing code
From 1 comment
This is really cool for sure. I can see how it's useful for teaching JavaScript concepts or doing analysis on code. Good job!
gawker on HN
Objections
Force-directed layout is distracting and represents arbitrary values
From 2 comments
Very cool. While I love the look of force-directed-graphs, they wind up representing lots of arbitrary/random values, in all the degrees of freedom of the exact…
gojomo on HNThis is something I've been thinking about myself. Sometimes when writing large Backbone apps you may find yourself binding the same event twice to a model, or creating memory…
dmvaldman on HN
Unclear what the use case is
From 2 comments
This looks really cool! Not sure what I'd use it for, but it looks awesome. Have any use cases in mind?
Swizec on HNThis is an initial concept/prototype I've been working on today. Pretty neat I think, but not exactly sure of the use case yet beyond making code more visual. All thoughts on…
philip_roberts on HN
Requests
Slow down visualization to see flow between methods
From 1 comment
It might be interesting to be able to slow down the visualization. Right now it all happens instantly, whereas you might be able to see the flow from one method to the next.
mnutt on HN
Timeline view of method invocations
From 2 comments
It would be great to see a timeline, where each method invocation leaves a colored point behind it. So there would be colored trails as time progresses. Then it would be useful…
crucialfelix on HNI think a timeline view probably makes more sense ultimately, but I have just modified the demo so that the events happen sequentially, and you can see a trail of events via…
philip_roberts on HN
Live injection via bookmarklet into running apps
From 2 comments
It would be great to see a timeline, where each method invocation leaves a colored point behind it. So there would be colored trails as time progresses. Then it would be useful…
crucialfelix on HNThis would cool as a bookmarklet that can launch the graph in a modal window when viewing any JS app.
ville on HN
Show object instantiation and graph of Backbone models and views
From 2 comments
I would like to be able to click and go into the prototype definition of the object it is displaying , would be a great thing. And also be able to use that live while an…
camus on HNI have the same experience with Backbone apps... Even something that graphed model/collection/view connections would probably be super useful.
alxndr on HN
Questions
What is the use case for this?
From 1 comment
This looks really cool! Not sure what I'd use it for, but it looks awesome. Have any use cases in mind?
Swizec on HN
Is this static analysis or runtime instrumentation?
From 1 comment
Isn't that static analysis though? That would make it a bit different then.
troels on HN
Alternatives named
colony (hughsk) static analysis of JavaScript
From 1 comment
Recent similar project https://github.com/hughsk/colony Posted here but with no comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676314
irickt on HN
codeperspective C# visualization tool
From 1 comment
I have a visualization tool for c# - https://www.codeperspective.com . I found that left to right rank graphs work really well when showing order of execution as most programs…
swax on HN