Graphs

WhatsApp Web’s code is scrambled before it ships. One module never mentions another by name, it refers to it by position (d[3]). Searching for usages therefore finds nothing. The list of connections survives in each module’s dependency array, and cellar reverses those arrays while unpacking, so it can answer the question directly.

cellar graph WASmaxMdGetPasskeyRequestOptionsRPC --direction dependents --depth 2

nodes, 3 edges  (bundle whatsapp-1044822804, direction dependents)

DEPTH  STATE    DEPS  USED  MODULE
    ok          7     1  WASmaxMdGetPasskeyRequestOptionsRPC
    ok         12     4  WAWebShortcakeLinkingApi
    ok          6     2  WAWebShortcakeLinkingIq
    ok          4     2  WAWebShortcakeLinkingRequestOptionsCache

Direction

Direction	Question it answers
`deps` (default)	What does this module need to work?
`dependents`	What breaks if this module changes?
`both`	What is the neighbourhood around this module?

Choosing the roots

Give module names, a regex, or both. The regex form is how you graph a whole feature at once.

cellar graph WAWebSendMsgStanza WAWebReceipt --direction deps
cellar graph --match '^WAWebNewsletter' --direction deps --depth 1

Export formats

Mermaid

cellar graph WASmaxMdGetPasskeyRequestOptionsRPC \
  --direction dependents --depth 2 --format mermaid

flowchart LR
  n0["WASmaxMdGetPasskeyRequestOptionsRPC"]
  n1["WAWebShortcakeLinkingApi"]
  n2["WAWebShortcakeLinkingIq"]
  n3["WAWebShortcakeLinkingRequestOptionsCache"]
  n1 --> n2
  n2 --> n0
  n3 --> n2

Paste that into GitHub, Notion, or these docs and it renders: Arrows always point from the module that depends to the module it depends on, whichever direction you walked.

Graphviz

cellar graph WASmaxMdGetPasskeyRequestOptionsRPC \
  --direction dependents --depth 1 --format dot | dot -Tsvg -o graph.svg

digraph cellar {
  rankdir=LR;
  node [shape=box, fontname="monospace"];
  "WASmaxMdGetPasskeyRequestOptionsRPC" [label="WASmaxMdGetPasskeyRequestOptionsRPC", style=filled, fillcolor="#cde4ff"];
  "WAWebShortcakeLinkingIq" [label="WAWebShortcakeLinkingIq"];
  "WAWebShortcakeLinkingIq" -> "WASmaxMdGetPasskeyRequestOptionsRPC";
}

Roots are shaded. Modules that are referenced but not present in this version are drawn with a dashed outline, and modules your filter would have excluded are greyed out.

JSON

cellar graph WAWebSendMsgStanza --direction dependents --format json

Each node reports its depth from the nearest root, whether it exists in this version, its total dependency and dependent counts, and its file path.

Options

Flag	Meaning
`--depth N`	Hops from the roots. `0` means unlimited. Default `1`.
`--max-nodes N`	Stop after N nodes. Truncation is always reported.
`--no-external`	Drop references to modules this version does not contain.
`--cycles`	Report dependency cycles found in the collected subgraph.
`--filter NAME`	Mark nodes the filter would exclude, without removing them.

Filtered nodes are marked rather than deleted, because a module you do not care about can still be the only link between two you do. The STATE column tells you which is which.

Get started

Commands

Direction

Choosing the roots

Export formats

Mermaid

Graphviz

JSON

Options

​Direction

​Choosing the roots

​Export formats

​Mermaid

​Graphviz

​JSON

​Options

Direction

Choosing the roots

Export formats

Mermaid

Graphviz

JSON

Options