Show HN: Disc, a project visualisation tool for your node/browserify modules

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How about including the treemap[0] approach like in KDirStat [1]? Here are some other techniques that are interesting ->[2]. It may even be interesting to break this into two modules. One that builds the tree for Browserify and another that builds tree visualizations.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping

[1] http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net

[2] http://www.randelshofer.ch/treeviz/

Very interesting transitions and cool palette, but isn't this a filesystem visualization tool ? I couldn't get any further information about the code itself (Firefox 22/ Win x64).

Given one or more node-style CommonJS files, it resolves the files that are actually being used before including them. I'm looking to add a few other metrics, but I've updated the title to something more appropriate :)

Ah, the resolution part is great ! The traditional OO crowd loves their metrics visualizers, so you can be on the vanguard of a new fetish in js-land :D !

Love the file size / file count transition!

OT: I recall old and apparently abandoned Windows program called "Overdisk"[0] for examining entire filesystem, which uses similar visualization pattern and for me is pleasure to use while decluttering hard drives.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=overdisk

I use a similar one for OSX, "DaisyDisk"[1].

[1]: http://www.daisydiskapp.com

The best I've ever used, and continue to do so is:

http://windirstat.info/

Looks great; is it feasible to adapt this to another languages?

Thanks! Fairly feasible - the harder part would be resolving the correct files, with a small tweak to the API it'd be possible to pass that list to the tool directly.

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