Case Study: JetBrains achieves clearer codebase overviews with yWorks yEd Graph Editor

JetBrains uses yWorks yEd Graph Editor to power UML diagrams for 8 million customers

JetBrains, a leading provider of integrated development environments (IDEs), faced the challenge of helping developers visualize and understand increasingly large and complex codebases. To provide this overview without a costly internal development project, they sought a professional diagramming solution and chose to integrate the yFiles SDK from vendor yWorks.

The yFiles solution provided sophisticated automatic layout capabilities to generate clear UML diagrams directly from source code. This integration, which was customizable to match the JetBrains UI, allowed them to offer effective, great-looking diagrams with minimal development effort. As a result, developers using JetBrains IDEs can automatically visualize code structure and relationships, gaining quick overviews without manually rearranging diagrams that stay updated when code changes.

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