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dsl
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D2 is now open source – a new, modern language that turns text to diagrams
1. not currently, but it's on the roadmap!
2. with any integration, if there's enough demand, we'll do it. Once we add interactivity to diagrams, it should be trivial to emulate. However I should mention that Simon Brown (the creator of C4) has his own DSL for C4 https://github.com/structurizr/dsl)! We have no intention of competing with it.
3. Currently the options to tune are limited. The Terrastruct app has granular layout control via drag-and-drop, and we're working to bring some of that to native/open-source.
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How is your time spent in the architecture role?
It's really just an evolution of the original Structurizr for Java library that I built 5+ years ago. Some people really liked the ability to create a model+views using a programming language (ports are now available for .NET, PHP, Python, TypeScript, etc), but many thought it was silly. So I've always wanted to do something "text-based", but I wanted to do "models as code" rather than "diagrams as code". The lockdown in 2020 gave me some time to do this, and the DSL is really just a thin wrapper on that original Java library. Being a wrapper for the Java library provides a way for you to create parts of your model via scripts (Groovy, Kotlin, JRuby) or by mixing the DSL and code. This creates opportunities for manually defining a high level model, and then perhaps inserting a deployment architecture that's automatically generated by parsing AWS/Azure/Terrform/etc.
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Structurizr – Diagrams as Code
Some helpful URLs, IMHO
https://structurizr.com/dsl?example=amazon-web-services (hover over the diagram and press the play icon to trigger the "animation" referenced in the DSL)
https://structurizr.com/products as for "which parts are free vs paid"
https://github.com/structurizr/dsl#readme (one of several repos, but unclear which is the "main one") they all seem to be Apache 2 licensed
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I'm just serving as lazyweb bot, I haven't used this product(service?) before
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Architecture as Code with C4 and Plantuml
Thanks for structurizr DSL. I'm a big fan of C4 and plantUML. I'll definitely have a look at https://github.com/structurizr/dsl.
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Diagrams as Code 2.0
Structurizr DSL - https://github.com/structurizr/dsl
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Software to build a visual representation of the solution?
The C4 model and the Structurizr DSL (demo) are pretty much designed to do exactly this. Disclaimer: I'm the author of both.
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Reading up on C4 Model...how would you document related systems and repos without repeating yourself?
Create a system landscape, plus a drill-down for each system. In this option you create a new repo in which you define your system landscape - i.e. all of the people and software systems, plus their interactions. In the system1 repo, you extend this model to add the internal details, diagrams, and docs specifically for system1. Repeat for system2 and system3. With this approach, you would see that system1 (and system1.serviceX) interacts with system2, but you wouldn't see system2.serviceY, since that's an implementation detail of, and internal to, system2. The Structurizr DSL has been designed to work for this use case with the "workspace extension" feature, see https://github.com/structurizr/dsl/tree/master/docs/cookbook/workspace-extension for more details.
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A visual C4 model tool for your team
This (icepanel.io) is just a graphical editor for C4 Model diagrams.
The actual standard (if you can call it that, because it is quite light weight, and that is a good thing) is open source as far as I know.
This means that you can create C4 diagrams with PlantUML [0] or using the C4 specific DSL [1].
[0] - https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML
[1] - https://github.com/structurizr/dsl
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Alternatives to c4 model?
With this in mind, the Structurizr DSL provides a way to create a model as code, which can then be rendered using tooling of your choice. The Structurizr renderer is one option, but there are others, and you can build your own to meet the style that you're looking for. See structurizr.org - Rendering tools for more.
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Scripting support added to the Structurizr DSL
The Structurizr DSL now provides a way to run scripts written in Groovy, Kotlin, Ruby, and JavaScript, via the new !script keyword. This gives you access to the underlying Structurizr for Java workspace, for when you need to do something not supported by the DSL.
dagre
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D2 Playground
It was unmaintained for a long time (maybe considered done implementing the algorithm it set out to), but recently a Google engineer has revived it: https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre
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Show HN: Databasediagram.com – Private, Text to Entity-Relationship Diagram Tool
The issue I have with a lot of these tools is they work fine when depicting relationships between tables in the same schema (talking mainly about PostgreSQL databases), but few support showing relationships between tables across different schemas.
Also, when the number of tables grows large, few have layouts arranged in an optimal way. I use D2 (https://d2lang.com/) to create ERDs. However, of the free layout engines available in D2, Dagre (https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre) and ELK (https://github.com/eclipse/elk) both don't have optimal placement of layouts for a sufficiently complicated database.
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Captain of Industry Calculator/Factory Planner
You are right, after a bit of searching found nice library: https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre and couple of others. Maybe will try it out.
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Chart Flows with grouped sub nodes
I am using ReactFlow with Dagre to create reasonably simple graph flows as the following example:
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Ask HN: Are There Any Layered Graph Layout Algorithms in Active Development?
Hello,
I've been researching layered graph algorithms, but it appears that this market is mostly inactive at the moment.
Dagre (https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre) is considered outdated, with a codebase from 2015 that is no longer being updated, although they still accept some pull requests.
KLAY (https://github.com/kieler/klayjs) has been succeeded by ELK, and development stopped in 2016.
ELK (https://github.com/kieler/elkjs) is currently being developed by the KIELER Project, mostly by students and professors, written in Java. They are doing a great job, but the library is written in Java and then transpiled to JavaScript. They also rely on students for help with the development, which makes progress slow.
Do you happen to know of any new projects that are actively addressing this problem?
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D2 is now open source – a new, modern language that turns text to diagrams
dagrejs has a section on "Recommended Reading" which lists which algorithms from which papers they implement.
https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre/wiki#recommended-reading
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D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
Terrastruct engineer here. The visualization will be open source though I can't say for sure yet whether it'll be with our layout algorithm or with https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre.
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Graphviz project for Flutter
Another option is Dagre which is apparently now abandoned.
What are some alternatives?
C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures
elkjs - ELK's layout algorithms for JavaScript
kubernetes-client - Java client for Kubernetes & OpenShift
dagre-d3 - A D3-based renderer for Dagre
cli - A command line utility for Structurizr.
obsidian-graphviz - Graphviz plugin for obsidian md.
java - Structurizr for Java
text-to-diagram-site - Compare syntax, layouts, outputs between languages for generating diagrams with text.
c4model-visio-stencil - Visio stencil with C4 Model shapes
poap - ⛔️ DEPRECATED - Proof Of Attendance Protocol
zerocode - A community-developed, free, opensource, automated testing framework for microservices APIs, Kafka(Data Streams) and Load testing. Zerocode Open Source enables you to create, change and maintain your automated test scenarios via simple JSON or YAML files. Visit documentation below:
d2 - D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.