Why developers like OpenGrok

What is OpenGrok?

It is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java. It helps you search, cross-reference and navigate your source tree. It can understand various program file formats and version control histories of many source code management systems.

OpenGrok is a tool in the Code Search category of a tech stack.

OpenGrok is an open source tool with 4.5K GitHub stars and 781 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to OpenGrok's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses OpenGrok?

Companies

Platform Tools 2023

Developers

CDS

My Stack

OpenGrok Integrations

Java, PHP, Ruby, Golang, and Kotlin are some of the popular tools that integrate with OpenGrok. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with OpenGrok.

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PHP

Ruby

Golang

Kotlin

C++

Scala

Lua

Clojure

OpenGrok's Features

Search for full text, definitions, symbols, path and revision history
Limit searches to any subtree (hierarchical search)
Incrementally update its index. i.e update only the changed files since last time it was updated
Search query with Google like syntax (eg. path:Makefile defs:target)
Search for files modified within a date range
Search using wild cards like * (many characters) or ? (one character)
Show the matching lines in search results

OpenGrok Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to OpenGrok?

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Docker

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

npm

npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.

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