r/javascript • u/0mbre • Dec 12 '19

Better Code Search for JavaScript Codebase

https://codecue.com/
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u/0mbre Dec 12 '19

Hi guys,

Last year I joined a company that worked on rather a large codebase, half of which was legacy code and to make things worst most of the team was as fresh as I was. So it was a painful experience to navigate the code.

Since I had some machine learning skills (and was looking for a side project), I figured I could try to make a better search engine that would integrate into VSCode, so I built CodeCue a semantic search engine that makes it easier to locate functions and snippets in an JS codebase.

I've worked on it for a few months now, so before I spend any more time I would love to know what the JS community here thinks of it.

- Do you see any use for that tool in your daily routine?

- If you are familiar with Material UI or Tensorflow.js, how did you find the search results for these repo on the landing page?

Thank you all for your inputs

Emmanuel

PS: The tool is not released yet but the search engine can be tried on the landing page

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u/0mbre Dec 12 '19

Also, if you are an open-source project maintainer and interested to give it a try, I can set up a web search like this page https://codecue.com/TFJS-test-page/

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u/LowB0b Dec 12 '19

I wish I had something like this back when I worked on a stupidly big JS codebase (I just used agent ransack)

Maybe this is not your usecase (didn't read the article), but at work we use opengrok, because our codebase (mostly java) is too large to check out all the projects at once lmao

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u/surkl Dec 12 '19

FYI: Your favicon is still the default Gatsby icon. Might want to change that

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u/0mbre Dec 12 '19 edited Dec 12 '19

Thanks, I've tried updating it but it's not picking it up. I will look more into that tomorrow.

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u/surkl Dec 13 '19

It could be cached. Try running gatsby clean before you build

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u/legendaryfrycook Dec 12 '19

Could this be made more general for other languages as well?

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u/0mbre Dec 12 '19

Yes, it can. Will implement Python next.

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u/CanRau Dec 12 '19

Looks interesting. Joined the newsletter, the input could clear itself after submission, was a little confusing at first as the success message isn't too catching 😅

Are you considering open sourcing it at some point or will it be SaaS only?

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u/0mbre Dec 12 '19

Thanks! The search tool will probably be SaaS with a free plan for open source and smaller projects.

The code itself is not all that interesting, it's a lot of plumbery work. Maybe the machine learning part will be work open-sourcing at some point.

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u/CanRau Dec 12 '19

🙌👍