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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
c4-notation
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Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language
What you are describing sounds a lot like C4: https://c4model.com/
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Ask HN: How do you document complex software systems?
The C4 model [0] provides a mostly sensible structure and techniques for representing pure software systems across different abstraction levels.
For systems involving software and hardware, or other complex interfacing (both technology and bureaucracy) this starts to delve into the universe of systems engineering. There's a decent assembly of knowledge on that in the SEBoK [1].
As another commenter has already called out too, one of the most valuable sources of information is also _why_ a system is in its current form and _how_ that's changed over time. ADR's [2] really do a good job at nailing this for just about any scale.
[0]: https://c4model.com
[1]: https://sebokwiki.org
[2]: https://adr.github.io
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A View on Functional Software Architecture
There a various standards for documenting software architecture, like arc42 or C4. While useful and somewhat well-known (there is certainly a correlation here), here architecture documentation can be further simplified, particularly due to the self-similarity of project and component. Following is a small template, that can also serve as a project's and component's README:
- The C4 model for visualising software architecture
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Inkscape Cloud Architect
I would suggest that if your architecture diagrams are a bunch of icons provided by AWS/Azure/GCP with lines pointing at each other... you are doing it wrong.
The 'what does this box do for my system' is vastly more important than the 'which in vogue offering from my cloud provider implements it'.
I highly suggest folks take a look at the C4 Model: https://c4model.com/
- What do you wish business folks knew about UML?
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How to create interactive zoomable software architecture diagrams
We often use abstractions in software engineering to communicate complex architectures and software systems. In this article, we’ll discuss how abstractions are inherently hierarchical and how the C4 model provides a nested structure for defining your software architecture. We’ll then cover how IcePanel allows you to create interactive and zoomable diagrams for your audience to zoom in and out of different levels of technical detail.
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Architecture diagrams enable better conversations
You probably want https://c4model.com/ which explains what a C4 architecture diagram is. (See the first footnote in the article.)
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Do modern diagramming techniques play a crucial role in software development?
I looked at the book OP is talking about and it seems to be advocating 'C4' (https://c4model.com/). IMO this is the same kind of block diagrams we end up creating organically. I dunno that I'd call this 'modern' or anything special, it's just what everyone already does. I've done hundreds of these and not once has anyone ever mentioned 'C4' or anything being 'modern'. Shrug
What are some alternatives?
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]
excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Cytoscape.js - Graph theory (network) library for visualisation and analysis
backstage - Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
d3-dag - Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acyclic graphs
C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
sketchviz - A command line clone of https://sketchviz.com/
pumla - pumla - systematic re-use of model elements described with PlantUML
qgroundcontrol - Cross-platform ground control station for drones (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Windows)
plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description