Guide · Architecture

An architecture diagram generated from your code

Not boxes someone drew once, and not a graph of every import: the areas of the product, what each one does, the customer paths through them and the rules between them — read from the repository and redrawn after every push.

In short

To generate an architecture diagram from code, a tool has to read what the code does, not only what it imports. GitMir reads a repository into a model of its areas, screens, API routes, records, customer paths, status flows and rules, and draws it as a product map you can open down to a single rule. Because the model is updated on every push, the diagram stays current — and the same model answers questions, shows what a change reaches and gives coding agents their context.

Three kinds of diagram

What each kind shows, and how long it stays true

KindWhat it showsHow it stays current
Drawn by handBoxes and arrows as somebody understood the systemIt does not — every change after the drawing makes it a little less true
Dependency graphImports and calls between files and modulesRegenerated from code, but it shows how the code is wired, not what the product does
Product map from GitMirAreas, screens, API routes, records, customer paths, status flows, rules and how they connectRebuilt from the repository on every push
Real examples

Open-source products, read in full

Each row is a published GitMir model. Open the architecture page to see the areas, paths and rules behind the numbers.

ProductAreasScreensAPI routesCustomer pathsRulesLines read
Supabase Studio345814091716459,339
OpenAI Codex304202373012603,461
cal.com101,306467189365,422
Atlas49171,1292816173,995
What a current diagram is for

The same drawing answers four jobs

Onboarding

Find where a feature lives and what it touches without a tour from whoever is free. On the projects GitMir has run, the time to a first accepted change went from 21 days to 4 days.

Planning a change

Open the area, follow its connections and see what a change reaches before anyone estimates it.

Migration

Know what depends on what before you move it — including the connections no import shows.

Review

Changes shows the drawing at any commit: what appeared, what was removed and what changed.

With GitMir

The diagram is one view of the model

GitMir Intelligence

Connect a repository and get the product map, answers about it and change impact — current with every push.

GitMir Intelligence →

Public models

Eight open-source products drawn from their code, open to anyone with no account.

Public models →

GitMir Business Review

What each push changed in the product, computed from two versions of the same model.

GitMir Business Review →

Questions

Asked about architecture diagram from code

How do I generate an architecture diagram from code?

Connect the repository to GitMir. It reads the code into a model of the product and draws the areas, screens, API routes, records, customer paths, status flows and rules, with the connections between them, as a map you can open down to one rule.

Which languages does GitMir read?

TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, Kotlin, C#, Swift, PHP, Rust and Dart, plus Vue, Svelte and Astro files. It reads repositories from GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket.

How is this different from a dependency graph?

A dependency graph connects files and symbols and answers where something is used. A product map connects rules, customer paths, status flows and features and answers what the product does and what a change reaches.

Does the diagram stay up to date?

Yes. Every push to the connected branch is read, and only what the push touched is read again; the drawing and every answer name the commit they are current to.

Can I see an example without connecting my code?

Yes. Eight open-source products, Supabase Studio among them, are modelled in public at gitmir.com/models, each with an architecture page.

Try it on your own code

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