Architecture and refactoring never went away — AI just accelerated the process… so I built this to visualize codebases
Using AI (Codex, etc.) made coding way faster.
But this isn’t new — projects were always going to get messy as they grow: architecture drift, unclear structure, harder to reason about.
AI just makes it happen faster.
At some point, your system evolves faster than your mental model. That’s when you need to step back and refactor.
So I built a tool to visualize codebase structure — so you can quickly see if things are still aligned.
I call it Clear Arch — a tool that maps your project’s structure from files and dependencies into an expandable graph.
I’m also thinking about exposing it through MCP in the future, so agents could call it while working and show you the current architecture of the codebase.
If you're building software, this might be useful:
VS Code (Marketplace): https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=clear-arch.clear-arch
VS Code (Direct): vscode:extension/clear-arch.clear-arch
Currently supports JS / TS / JSX / TSX / HTML projects for now.
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