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/explain provides a detailed explanation of your codebase.

Use it to understand complicated or unfamiliar code, identify potential issues and know your project better.

Using /explain

  1. Open a file: Open a file in your project.

  2. Activate Qodo Gen: Click the Qodo Gen logo in the Extensions bar.

  3. Focus: Select the part of the code you need an explanation for. It could be a few lines of code, a method, an entire file and more. Check out to learn more.

  4. Call the Command: Type /explain in the chatbox and hit the send key or click the arrow button.

  5. (Optional) Add optional instructions: you can ask Qodo Gen anything you want some elaboration on.

  6. Result! Qodo Gen will explain your code to you.

  7. (Optional) Continue your chat: To give Qodo Gen more instructions, just type a command or ask a question to keep chatting.

Example

Given this code snippet:

function sayHello(name) {
    return "Hello World! I'm " + name;
}

const user = "Username";
const hello = sayHello(user);

console.log(hello);

Command

/explain [optional instructions]

Response


## Summary
This code snippet is a simple TypeScript function named `sayHello` that takes
a single argument `name` and returns a greeting string that includes the provided name.

## Example Usage
```javascript
const greeting = sayHello("Alice");
console.log(greeting); // Output: Hello World! I'm Alice
```

## Code Analysis
### Inputs
- `name`: a string representing the name of the person to greet.
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### Flow
1. The function `sayHello` is called with a single argument `name`.
2. It constructs a greeting message by concatenating "Hello World! I'm " with the `name`.
3. The constructed string is returned as the output.
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### Outputs
- A string that is a greeting message including the provided `name`.
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