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| 232 | 992 | |
| 2.6% | 8.9% | |
| 8.0 | 9.5 | |
| 7 days ago | 4 months ago | |
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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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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revezone
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How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams
For anyone who likes excalidraw & tldraw, there's this wrapper that handles local storage: https://github.com/revezone/revezone
What are some alternatives?
GraphvizOnline - Let's Graphviz it online
pikchr - Mirror for Pikchr
dagre - Directed graph layout for JavaScript
ezmdpage - 📝 Write raw Markdown in .html files that gets auto-rendered on page load
red5-server - Red5 Server core
mermaid-js-auto-renderer - Mermaid JS webpage auto renderer
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.
penrose - Create beautiful diagrams just by typing notation in plain text.
excalidraw-collaboration - excalidraw with collaboration feature, self-hosting, and only one-click deploy
argdown - a simple syntax for complex argumentation
Jetty - Eclipse Jetty® - Web Container & Clients - supports HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.0, websocket, servlets, and more
DrawThe.Net - drawthe.net draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons. Given a yaml file describing the hierarchy of the network and it's connections, a resulting diagram will be created.