Tutorial: Build a TypeScript CLI to Map GitHub Codebase Relationships as a Graph
A new developer tutorial published on DEV Community walks through building a command-line tool in TypeScript that transforms GitHub pull request data into an in-memory engineering graph. The project maps four node types — repositories, pull requests, files, and people — connected by relationships such as authored, modified, and reviewed. By querying these relationships, developers can identify who has experience with a specific file, who reviewed related changes, and which files frequently change together. The CLI uses only TypeScript and GitHub's REST API, requiring no graph database, vector database, or AI model. The guide covers project setup, graph construction, GitHub data ingestion, query design, and basic testing, and is aimed at developers inheriting unfamiliar codebases.
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