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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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elk
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How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams
Graphviz is the classic option but unfortunately it isn't very good. I mean it was great when it was written in the 80s or whatever but then it seems like it was declared "done" and is still stuck in the 80s.
Quite annoying because it totally dominates the mindshare of graph layout tools, making it difficult to find alternatives.
Here's some other options anyway:
* Eclipse Layout Kernel: https://github.com/eclipse/elk
* OGDF: https://ogdf.uos.de/
In fairness both their websites are pretty terrible (would some examples kill you OGDF?) and they don't provide an easy way to try them out, so I guess it's not that surprising that Graphviz dominates.
Anyway in practice if you have a complex graph then doing it manually is by far the best option.
If it's too big to do manually then it's unlikely to be a useful graph in the first place.
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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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flowchart-fun
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Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?
https://flowchart.fun recently helped a lot with a project.
- Simple Text to Flowchart, Online & Free
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How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams
- flowchart.fun - paid - https://flowchart.fun
- Text to Mindmap
- Flowchart Fun
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What is your favorite diagram software?
flowchart.fun though!
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Ask HN: AI to study my DSL and then output it?
On https://flowchart.fun I found that I got better overall results by asking GPT for an intermediate syntax that it was less likely to mess up (and easier for me to parse), and then parsing and transforming that syntax to my DSL. The relevant code: https://github.com/tone-row/flowchart-fun/blob/main/api/prom...
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Would like to create documentation for my server - What are the best tools ?
https://flowchart.fun is a good one if you're looking for something fast. (It's text-to-diagram)
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Using GPT-4 for Business Process Flowcharts - Converting Visio to a Text-Based Syntax?
That's the use-case we're angling for with our GPT integration on flowchart.fun
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Displaying a tree of questions graphically
If you just need the image for your interface, you can generate one very quickly with https://flowchart.fun
What are some alternatives?
GraphvizOnline - Let's Graphviz it online
react-flow - React Flow | Svelte Flow - Powerful open source libraries for building node-based UIs with React (https://reactflow.dev) or Svelte (https://svelteflow.dev). Ready out-of-the-box and infinitely customizable. [Moved to: https://github.com/xyflow/xyflow]
dagre - Directed graph layout for JavaScript
Cytoscape.js - Graph theory (network) library for visualisation and analysis
red5-server - Red5 Server core
d3-dag - Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acyclic graphs
jQuery-menu-aim - jQuery plugin to fire events when user's cursor aims at particular dropdown menu items. For making responsive mega dropdowns like Amazon's.
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
excalidraw-collaboration - excalidraw with collaboration feature, self-hosting, and only one-click deploy
sketchviz - A command line clone of https://sketchviz.com/
Jetty - Eclipse Jetty® - Web Container & Clients - supports HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.0, websocket, servlets, and more
qgroundcontrol - Cross-platform ground control station for drones (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Windows)