Can anyone suggest a good opensource or free app for dependency mapping?
I have a large monolithic django application with lot of apps and I want to study each app's imports and dependency. This also can help me remove cyclic dependencies.

probably not helpful but if you could map it via text (command line) and then visualizing it with gephi graph tool. You could create a map of the app and it's relations. https://gephi.org/

@heyheni thanks. That's a great tool for mapping. By text you mean, we take all the import parts of the python file as txt files and use the tool right?

There is also a new awesome handbook from designers of the EU climate change commission on how to map complex systems. So that you can visualize it to make desicions.

Ebook PDF 100mb
Challenge-led System Mapping
A Knowledge management approach
https://drive.google.com/file/d/...

Skip the first 50 pages or so. That's where the good stuff starts.
If you master this you'll impress management.

@deeaarbee yeah as a csv.
Read the gephi readme on how to make the node edges.
csv gephi tutorial
https://youtu.be/FpOIbhOmGUs

also if you got some budget on hand exaptive is the more easier option than gephi and it has some intigrations with other tools like machine learning.

https://www.exaptive.com/

@heyheni wow thanks for the suggestions!
Let me try out the simple one first to achieve my goal. Then I'll try to improve on top of that.

@deeaarbee any luck with your endeavor so far? 🙂

@heyheni I tried pydeps, a python package to get the list of imports from each modules and I am using that to fill up the CSV file. Will do the graph once I complete the CSV file.

Pydeps also have option to plot graphs using the tool you mentioned. Going to try that also.