SymbolHound Reviews

Sourcetrail is an interactive source-explorer that makes navigation easier in existing source code. It indexes your code and gathers data about its structure. Sourcetrail provides an interface that is simple and includes three interactive views. Each view plays a crucial role in helping you find the information you need. - Search: Use this search field to quickly locate and select index symbols within your source code. The autocompletion box instantly provides a summary of all matches throughout your codebase. - Graph: This graph shows the structure of your source codes. It focuses on the current symbol and shows all incoming or outgoing dependencies to other symbol. - Code: The Code view shows all source locations for the current symbol in a list with code snippets. Clicking on a source location other than the one you are interested in allows you to modify the selection or dig deeper.

Hound is a very fast source code search engine. This article (and the code) is the core of Hound. Regular expression matching with a trigram Index. Hound is a static React frontend which talks to a Go backend. The backend maintains an up-to date index for each repository, and answers queries through a minimal API. Hound is currently only available for MacOS and CentOS. However, it should work on any *nix platform. Although Hound is not supported on Windows, we have heard it compile and run just fine (although it does help to exclude your data folders from the Windows Search Indexer).