I built a VS Code extension that scans your code and draws your microservice architecture

📰 Dev.to · Baris Ozgen

Learn how to build a VS Code extension that visualizes microservice architecture from code, enhancing development team collaboration and understanding

intermediate Published 30 Mar 2026
Action Steps
  1. Build a VS Code extension using the VS Code API to scan code and extract service dependencies
  2. Configure the extension to parse code files and identify microservice connections
  3. Test the extension with a sample codebase to validate its functionality
  4. Apply the extension to a real-world codebase to visualize and understand the microservice architecture
  5. Compare the visualized architecture with existing documentation to identify discrepancies
Who Needs to Know This

Developers, architects, and DevOps teams can benefit from this extension to better comprehend complex microservice interactions and dependencies

Key Insight

💡 Automating the visualization of microservice architecture can significantly improve team understanding and collaboration

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Key Takeaways

Learn how to build a VS Code extension that visualizes microservice architecture from code, enhancing development team collaboration and understanding

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Every codebase I joined had the same problem — nobody knew how the services actually connected. There...
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