It’s just a basic IntelliJ plugin which provides an infinite canvas to add code bookmarks to. I work on a large code base and often have to take on tasks involving lots of unfamiliar areas of code and components which influence each other only through long chains of indirection. Having a visual space to lay things out, draw connections, and quickly jump back into the code has been really helpful
The canvas and UI is built using Java AWT since that’s what IntelliJ plugins are built on, but it occurred to me that I could just throw in a web view and use any of the existing JS libraries for working on an infinite canvas. React Flow has seemed like the best option with tldraw being what I’d fallback to.
But then.. if the canvas is built with web technology then there’s no reason to keep it just within an IntelliJ plugin vs just a standalone web app with the ability to contain generic content that might open files in IntelliJ or any other editor. I’m pretty sure the “knowledge database on a canvas” thing has been done a number of times already so I want to also see if there are existing open source projects that it’d be easy enough to just add a special node type to
It’s just a basic IntelliJ plugin which provides an infinite canvas to add code bookmarks to. I work on a large code base and often have to take on tasks involving lots of unfamiliar areas of code and components which influence each other only through long chains of indirection. Having a visual space to lay things out, draw connections, and quickly jump back into the code has been really helpful
The canvas and UI is built using Java AWT since that’s what IntelliJ plugins are built on, but it occurred to me that I could just throw in a web view and use any of the existing JS libraries for working on an infinite canvas. React Flow has seemed like the best option with tldraw being what I’d fallback to.
But then.. if the canvas is built with web technology then there’s no reason to keep it just within an IntelliJ plugin vs just a standalone web app with the ability to contain generic content that might open files in IntelliJ or any other editor. I’m pretty sure the “knowledge database on a canvas” thing has been done a number of times already so I want to also see if there are existing open source projects that it’d be easy enough to just add a special node type to