Visualization for spaCy's codebase

[ivanmilevtues]

Hey all,
I generated a diagram representation of the spacy's codebase: https://github.com/CodeBoarding/GeneratedOnBoardings/blob/main/spaCy/on_boarding.md

The idea is to help new people contribute/customize the codebase - you have 4.5k+ forks, so I am sure there are even more people who want to play around with the codebase. We aim to help people get a high-level idea of the codebase and then drill down in what interests them with this diagram first approach. Lmk what you think about it!

All feedback is more than welcome!

Full disclosure: we're trying to turn this into a startup, but we're still in a very early stage and figuring out what will actually be useful for people. Also as many people brought that the diagrams will become outdated fast, we've introduced free github action!

[jakob1379]

for a more functional approach you could use this:
https://gitdiagram.com/explosion/spaCy

[ivanmilevtues]

Hey @jakob1379, we've tried gitdiagram before, however it doesn't scale for big projects i.e. you cannot generate a diagram for PyTorch.

Further wanted to quickly update you that we are now also open-source and have improved our generation quite a lot with Static Analysis to validate the output. For more details you can check the engine repo: https://github.com/CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding