VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick

2026-06-25

SYNAPSE turns your VS Code codebase into an interactive architecture graph

SYNAPSE — Visual Architecture Engine (v0.3.31, June 25, 2026) is a VS Code extension that scans your entire project, builds a live dependency graph, filters out noise, and lets you narrow the view to any file's N-hop neighborhood with a traffic heatmap overlay. Installs via manual VSIX from GitHub (GPL-3.0, free); Marketplace publication planned after v0.4.0.

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