CodebaseVisualizer3D

CodebaseVisulizer3D is a bachelor project with the goal of making it easier to getting an overview of codebases. It consumes a git repo and represents the datastructure with 3D graphics and performs code complexity review on the code.

Core team / Authors

• Kent Wincent Holt - 473209
• Zohaib Butt - 473219
• Eldar Hauge Torkelsen - 473180

Dockerized install

• Navigate to repository root and run "sudo docker-compose up"

Access application

• Open browser and go to "localhost".

Manual install guide

• Clone the repository.

Setup frontend

• Download and Install Emscripten
• Navigate to the root folder of repository and run the following command.
  • git submodule update --init --recursive
• Configuration:
  • Connections:
    • Navigate to the frontend/js/config folder and open the config.js file.
    • Fill all fields with appropriate information:
      • "host_ip" is the clients ip address.
      • "host_port" is the clients port.
      • "api_ip" is api/back-end servers ip.
      • "api_port" should be 5016 as this is not configurable in the current version.
      • "api_servername" is api/back-end servers name (not really needed at this point).
  • Style:
    • If you have a custom style you can edit it in frontend/js/config/style.js file.
• For apache setup look up how to setup a virtualhost and make it point to "CodebaseVisualizer3D/frontend".

Setup backend

Setup apiServer

• Install Golang

• Install MongoDB.

• Navigate to backend/apiServer folder from project root.

• Create a ".env" file where the following environment variables should exist:

  • "PORT" should be 5016.
  • "REPOSITORY_PATH" should be a folder to store cloned repositories.
  • "DB_LOCATION" should be "/data/db" or the path to mongodb storage.
  • "JAVA_PARSER" should be the absolute path to Java parser which relies at the following path from project root folder: CodebaseVisualizer3D/backend/parser/build/classes/java/main

Setup parser

• Install Java 11.0.2 or later.

• Download and install Gradle version 5.2 or later.

• Navigate to backend/parser folder from project root.

• Run "gradle release"

Access the application

• Open a terminal an execute the following commands:

  • "sudo service apache2 start"
  • "sudo mongod"

• Navigate to "CodebaseVisualizer3D/backend/apiServer" folder and run "go build . && go run main.go"

• Open a browser and navigate to custom URL specified in the apache2 setup.