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The roadmap for the Silverfish IDP lists adding support for component discovery for more languages as part of the short-term aims for improving the product. The likely order of implementation had JavaScript at the top of the list, and this week sees that support added.
The Silverfish IDP now offers comprehensive analysis of JavaScript and TypeScript codebases, extracting critical metadata about components, dependencies, and language versions.
Modern web development spans multiple tools, frameworks, and package managers. A single repository might contain frontend and backend services, use different packaging tools, mix JavaScript and TypeScript, and span multiple isolated workspace packages. Understanding this complexity requires sophisticated code analysis that goes far beyond simple file scanning.
Our new JS/TS analysis engine automatically detects:
Understanding your repository’s structure is the first step toward effective dependency management, security scanning and upgrade planning. Silverfish’s automated analysis eliminates the manual process of catalogue-building, providing you with instantly-queryable component metadata across your entire codebase.
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Today marks the first public release of the Silverfish Internal Developer Portal, built to help teams truly understand how their software is structured — from repositories to components to the organisational context behind them. Silverfish gives teams a language‑first map of their engineering landscape, starting with repository discovery and growing into a platform for insight, governance, and better decision‑making.
It’s intentionally lightweight: a beta release starting point for getting early adopters onboard, testing it and helping shape it’s future form.
This is very much an MVP release, but the foundations are solid, and now it’s in the hands of real developers. We’re excited to see how it grows.
If you’re interested in trying it out, head to https://dashboard.silverfishsoftware.com and get logged in and using it.
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There was a debate a few years ago around whether software engineering was “real engineering”. The driver behind it was the idea that for example a civil engineering team building a new bridge would spend months, years even, creating models - both physical and mathematical - and testing those models to destruction. Bridges falling down in real life are catastrophic events. Far better that time be spent up front to ensure the models fail than risk lose of life when the real thing fails. But software development doesn’t work that way.
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An Internal Developer Portal (IDP) is a platform designed to improve the developer experience within an organization.
OK, so what is “Developer Experience”?
Developer Experience (DevEx or DX) is the holistic view of a developer’s environment, tools, processes, and culture, focusing on making their work efficient, satisfying, and productive, much like User Experience (UX) but for builders of software, encompassing everything from IDEs and APIs to team workflows and onboarding.
What is Developer Experience?
How does an IDP improve DevEx? A good IDP provides a single place where developers can access everything they need for their day to work. Easy access to the tools they use, the location of software sources, documentation on how it all fits together. In other words, the resources they need to build, test, deploy, and monitor the software systems they create.
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The “coming soon” holding page has gone and the first iteration of the website is live.
What’s the plan?
Over the next few months, we will be building a viable IDP service, that will offer an affordable solution to everyone. And we really mean all developers/software engineers when we say “everyone” as there will be a powerful, feature rich offering for open source solutions in public repositories in Github from day one.
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