A lightweight dependency graph generator for C and more.
Project description
RedKnot
A simple dependency graph generator powered by mermaid.js
What it does
RedKnot is a dependency tree generator for your projects. It scans through the files in your project and graphs out the connections between them using mermaid.js.
Features
Currently supported languages:
- C
- C++
RedKnot can output just the mermaid.js code as well as a simple formatted HTML document which renders the mermaid.js graph.
Installation
RedKnot can be installed via pip:
pip install redknot
You can verify the installation by running:
redknot -version
RedKnot Version 0.0.1
By Sanyam Asthana
MIT License, 2025
Usage
To use RedKnot, just run redknot in your project folder.
redknot
graph TD
stdio.h --> helper.c
stdlib.h --> helper.c
helper.h --> helper.c
stdio.h --> utils.c
stdlib.h --> utils.c
utils.h --> utils.c
stdio.h --> main.c
stdlib.h --> main.c
helper.h --> main.c
utils.h --> main.c
To save the output of RedKnot to a file, you can redirect it using the redirection operator:
redknot > file.txt
To generate an HTML file which displays the graph, you can use the -html flag:
redknot -html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>MermaDep Graph</title>
</head>
<body>
<pre class="mermaid">
graph TD
stdio.h --> helper.c
stdlib.h --> helper.c
helper.h --> helper.c
stdio.h --> utils.c
stdlib.h --> utils.c
utils.h --> utils.c
stdio.h --> main.c
stdlib.h --> main.c
helper.h --> main.c
utils.h --> main.c
</pre>
<script type="module">
import mermaid from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mermaid@11/dist/mermaid.esm.min.mjs';
</script>
</body>
</html>
To save the HTML output in an HTML file, you can redirect it using the redirection operator:
redknot -html > index.html
By default, RedKnot displays any errors while reading files as mermaid.js comments. You can disable the comments by passing the -nocomm flag. The -html flag has comments disabled by default.
Author's Notes
Usually, I would put a section of technical details here, but since this is a one-file project which was made in like 10 minutes, there are not really a lot of details I can possible give. I am working towards supporting more languages like Python and Java, and any contribution to the project would mean a lot!
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MIT License
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