draw.io VS plantuml

Awesome! Next please add a collaborative/multiplayer mode ❤️ In every team you want to have the chance to work together on a flow diagram. Even draw.io does not support it until now, so if you get it working that would be huge news and a USP for Svelvet: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/1396

You can. I run it in docker, but you can do without it, check the repo https://github.com/jgraph/drawio

Drawio pull requests

Draw.io itself is self hostable by the looks of it https://github.com/jgraph/drawio

I draw all of my diagrams in a free application called diagrams.net (formerly draw.io). When building critical path diagrams, I put each data flow in its own layer. I then add buttons in the key that toggle the visibility of the layer, making it easy to show/hide entire flows.

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I’d look into how draw.io/jgraph open sources. They are open source - not open contribution. Easy way for your team to allow people to do what you want without additional governance. Appreciate the open dialogue! Link: draw.io github

I have been using this tool. It is open source, easy to use and has many different options Diagrams.net

I use https://plantuml.com.

I do fancy https://plantuml.com/ in combination with a few yankpad snippets with basic structure/elements to start from.

Another solution which I prefer is - maintaining diagrams as code which live in the same repos as the code. There are many tools these days which help us author diagrams from code. My favorites are Mermaid and PlantUML. Now your code can live in the repo and evolve along with the codebase. You might need to do additional setup if you'd like the diagrams to be generated as part of your CI/CD. I like to maintain these in a /docs folder within the project repo.

PlantUML is a tool that allows you to write diagrams such as sequence, object, component, usecase, class diagrams and more.

I haven’t actually used it yet, but I installed the plantuml plugin in PHPStorm yesterday and tinkered with it a bit. I think it will be a very useful communication tool because I can look at the code while I’m making my diagrams.

I've been using plantUML, a little steep learning curve but when you learn it, it's really good. https://plantuml.com/

PlantUML is a tool that allows you to write diagrams such as sequence, object, component, usecase, class diagrams and more.

Diagram as Code is a trending concept that automatically generates diagrams from a simple text/code. Some of the pioneers are PlantUML, Mermaid and Kroki. It has several great benefits like having your architecture diagrams close to your code and your development flow. If you want to learn more about it, there's a presentation that covers main benefits in action.

When I have to make a drawing for diagram at works I use plantuml.

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