Developers struggle to navigate symbols and relationships across codebases
VS Code developers report trouble finding symbols by partial, multi-word names and locating references or related files across a project. Other requests describe noisy symbol pickers and gaps connecting HTML and CSS selectors. The reports suggest that existing navigation can be incomplete, cluttered, or require a more complicated setup than users want.
For VS Code developers working in multi-file codebases. Mentioned from Jun 2019 to Nov 2020 on GitHub.
5 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 6.0/10
- Frequency
- 6.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I'm finding that since switching to vscode, I've written a lot of duplicate functions that do the same thing due to not being able to find functions by name using more than one word/substring
For me, in simple ES6 code with export and import in several files, there's no way to find the references. If I right click the exported symbol and click Find All References, it will only find references in the open files in the editor, which is not so useful
Build brief
See what to build and who will buy it
- 2 product ideas with the smallest useful version and pricing
- 3 places to find your first customers
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- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks