Code Compressor

Code Compressor is a tool that helps analyze and visualize JavaScript and TypeScript codebases. It works in stages to break down code into understandable patterns and then turns those patterns into images.

Benefits

Code Compressor helps you see the structure of your code in a new way. It can find different types of patterns like how functions are called, how components are used, and how data is defined. By turning these patterns into images, it makes it easier to inspect and understand large code projects. This visual format can also be used by artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help process and analyze the code.

Use Cases

This tool is useful for developers working with JavaScript and TypeScript projects. It can scan entire code repositories to extract detailed information about the code's structure. The extracted patterns are then turned into visual tile images. These images, along with other generated files like legends and coordinate maps, can be used for code inspection. The tool also includes an optional AI layer that can use these visual representations to help plan tasks, explore code, and even generate new code based on the analyzed patterns.

Vibes

The project mentions that support through "buying a coffee" helps with continued development and improvements to AI workflows, suggesting a community-driven aspect and ongoing enhancements.

Additional Information

Code Compressor is built with a two-stage pipeline. The first stage extracts various patterns from source files, and the second stage renders these patterns into tile images. An optional third stage uses these images to power AI agents for tasks like planning and code generation. The project requires Python and several libraries, including Pillow, numpy, and AI specific ones like google-genai and langgraph. Installation is done using pip.