DevOps · JetBrains plugin
Circular Dependency Companion
FreeBuild Tooling / Architecture
Visualizes the dependency graph between modules of a multi-module Gradle or Maven project, and highlights real circular dependencies when they exist: module/build-system level, not file/class-level "circular import" (already covered by several existing plugins). 100% static text/XML analysis of files already open in your project: no Gradle daemon, no Maven reactor buil
The gap it fixes
An original idea, not a port of an existing competitor — validated against this catalog's own idea-validation discipline before being built: (1) confirmed no plugin in this catalog or in JetBrains Marketplace does exactly this (results for "circular dependency java" are generic architecture visualizers or package analyzers, none focused specifically on build-module cycles); (2) confirmed buildable in the ~10-day budget with techniques this catalog already has proven — a hand-rolled text/regex parser for Gradle DSL (same pattern as NginxLexer/DockerfileParser), the JDK's own XML parser fo
Facts and pricing
- Category
- DevOps
- Pricing
- Free
- Platform
- IntelliJ-family plugin
- First published
- 2026-08-27
- Marketplace ID
- #33675
- Repository
circular-dependency-companion- Growth
- ▲ +6400.0% since 2026-08-21 (1→65)
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