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Modelio
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Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development?
Markdeep[0] from Casual Effects has a way of drawing diagrams using extended markdown.
I used it to write this document with two diagrams: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org
Other tool I like are PlanetUML[1], BoUML[2] and Modellio[3](it is very heavy though on system resources!)
[0] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep
[2] https://bouml.fr
kroki
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D2 Playground
Pikchr https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow is the other general purpose one and older than d2. It is "Source-Code License: 0-clause BSD" as it says on the page.
Someone made it into wasm and put playground for pikchr here https://www.jakethaw.com/pikchr_webassembly_demo/
Can also try pikchr online here on https://kroki.io/#try which is hosting many other text to diagram tools as well.
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Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
I use mermaid.js heavily, but plug for Kroki:
“Kroki provides a unified API with support for BlockDiag (BlockDiag, SeqDiag, ActDiag, NwDiag, PacketDiag, RackDiag), BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), D2, DBML, Ditaa, Erd, Excalidraw, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, Pikchr, PlantUML, Structurizr, SvgBob, Symbolator, TikZ, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom, WireViz... and more to come!”
- How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams
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Nomnoml
If you don't mind my asking, what aspects of "acceptable layout" is usually the first to get busted?
I'm extremely excited about using WireViz[1] to automate wiring harness diagram creation, and if I can, I'd like to know the speedbumps before I hit them. I'm thinkin generous linking between diagrams will be one path.
[1] Project:: https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz SandboxP:: https://kroki.io/#try [select Diagram>WireViz]
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LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games
The SVG output is embedded into the PDF file.
https://kroki.io/examples.html#mind-map
Kroki has other text-based formats for flow charts, Gantt charts, UML diagrams, packet diagrams, network diagrams, word clouds, etc.
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Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
My cross-platform desktop text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to define variables in an external YAML file. The editor calls out to Kroki[1] to convert text-based diagrams to SVG. The diagrams can reference variables and are rendered using EchoSVG[2].
KeenWrite[3] can produce PDF documentation from Markdown documents that has PlantUML diagrams with elements stored in an external, machine-readable file. Here are screenshots showing variables on the left, diagram text in the middle, and a real-time render on the right:
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
KeenWrite supports all diagrams offered by Kroki, which includes "diagram-plantuml".
[1]: https://kroki.io/
- Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
- MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
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Entity Relationship Diagrams
plantuml is amongst the best there is. kroki.io has a sandbox for it mermaid.js can do it in notion, it works as well as any other mermaid. dbvisualizer is fantastic if you have an existing schema in a db instance. you may need the trial license to render the diagrams
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New ChatGPT diagram plugin
I created a diagramming plugin for fun. This one uses kroki.io to generate diagrams rather than only Mermaid. I've also added a "network" type which gets rendered via networkx and matplotlib on the backend. I would love any feedback if anybody finds it useful or interesting, or issues.
What are some alternatives?
Mermaid - Edit, preview and share mermaid charts/diagrams. New implementation of the live editor.
plantuml-syntax - vim syntax file for plantuml
plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description
draw.io - draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
venn.nvim - Draw ASCII diagrams in Neovim
vscode-drawio - This unofficial extension integrates Draw.io (also known as diagrams.net) into VS Code.
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
obsidian-releases - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.
drawio-desktop - Official electron build of draw.io
jbpm - a Business Process Management (BPM) Suite