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Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer - Perform code reviews on a canvas
Hi HN! We're building Haystack Code Reviewer, a tool that lays out
code diffs for a GitHub pull request on an interactive canvas.
Instead of scrolling through diffs line-by-line, you can view all
changes in a more connected, visual format - similar to viewing a
call graph. We hope this will make it easier and less cognitively
taxing to understand how different changes across files work
together. For a quick overview, check out our short demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOz70x0WPE. If you would like to
give it a spin, head over to https://haystackeditor.dev, click the
"Review pull request button" in the top toolbar, and load any pull
request via URL or pick a pull request from a dropdown. We built
Haystack Code Reviewer because we found pull requests difficult to
review in a pure textual format -- especially when hopping between
multiple files or trying to break down complex changes. Oftentimes,
pull request authors would have to specifically structure their
commits so that code reviews would be easier to tackle, which is a
time-consuming and error-prone process. Our goal is to make any
pull request easy to understand at a glance, and reduce the effort
needed from both reviewers and authors to craft a good code review.
Haystack Code Reviewer works on private repositories! We have
authentication to ensure that someone cannot open the server for
your pull request without having access to that pull request on
GitHub. For additional security, we plan to build self-hosting
soon. Please contact us if you're interested in this.
Alternatively, a completely local option would be to download
desktop Haystack and then navigate to your pull request from there.
This is great for trying out the feature without exposing any data
on the cloud! In the near future, we plan to: 1. Introduce step-
by-step navigation to guide reviewers through each part of the
changeset 2. Allow for self-hosting We'd love to hear your
thoughts, suggestions, and any feedback on our approach or
potential features!
Author : akshaysg
Score : 28 points
Date : 2025-02-04 17:02 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| etwigg wrote:
| This looks incredible! How does language support work? (I'm
| curious about Kotlin in particular)
| akshaysg wrote:
| Language support relies on the same language servers that VS
| Code uses (i.e. language extensions)! Servers come pre-
| installed with a variety of extensions, but I believe we do not
| install Kotlin for now. We'll get Kotlin installed (this was
| just an oversight)!
| hassleblad23 wrote:
| I have always wanted to do something like this! Great work.
| rwparris2 wrote:
| Looks great!
|
| I'll be looking out for gitlab integration
| groby_b wrote:
| This looks interesting - looking forward to see where it heads!
|
| An entirely nitpicky nitpick: The demo GIF rubs me the wrong way.
| I know, you want to show of all the features quickly, but what I
| see when I watch it is a reviewer who doesn't actually read the
| code, just clicks "reviewed" everywhere, and throws in a slightly
| patronizing "Good job!"
|
| If you have a moment, you might want to think about a flow that's
| better at demonstrating how it improves code reviews delivered.
|
| But, as I said, nitpick. There's a lot of potential here!
| akshaysg wrote:
| Good point! Yeah I think I should record myself doing an actual
| review while balancing showing the complete feature set.
|
| Thank you!
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