Understanding Github Repositories using DeepWiki
2 May 2025
This is just a small writing about this tool I discovered today called DeekWiki and how cool and benificial it’s for understanding any Github repository.
While I am not an AI hyped fanboy, even tho I use AI tools to help me with my work sometimes, I find this tool very cool and useful. Those are the moments I feel how AI could be leveraged to help us understand things better rather than doing things for us that are not maintainable.
What is DeepWiki?
DeepWiki is a tool that provides documentations for any Github repo generating charts and all that.
How to use DeepWiki?
You can use it by going to deepwiki.com and search for any repository you want to understand. Or by replacing github.com
with deepwiki.com
in the repository URL.
For example, instead of going to https://github.com/TanStack/router you can go to https://deepwiki.com/TanStack/router and it will show you the same thing.
What I find very cool about this is the charts generated! Look at the tanstack-router example, the documentation on Github doesn’t include any kind of charts or graphs, but DeepWiki does.
The part where they showcase the integration with Tanstack Query and other libraries is what hooked me the most. very simple, straight to the point and easy to understand.