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CodeNav vs Octotree: What are the differences?
Developers describe CodeNav as "A browser extension that improves code navigation on Github". CodeNav is a Chrome extension and Firefox addon that makes navigating code on Github easier and more intuitive. It borrows features from popular IDEs for more seamless movement around code. Hover over a variable to highlight other references and visualize them on your scrollbar. Click a variable or object to search for other instances in the same project. On the other hand, Octotree is detailed as "Browser extensions to display GitHub code in tree format". Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera) to display GitHub code in tree format. Useful for developers who frequently read source in GitHub and do not want to download or checkout too many repositories.
CodeNav and Octotree belong to "Tools for GitHub" category of the tech stack.
CodeNav and Octotree are both open source tools. Octotree with 17.8K GitHub stars and 1.5K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than CodeNav with 125 GitHub stars and 19 GitHub forks.