plantuml
Generate diagrams from textual description (by plantuml)
excalidraw
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams (by excalidraw)
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9.5 | 9.5 | |
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Java | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
plantuml
Posts with mentions or reviews of plantuml.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-06-13.
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Code Diagrams - 3 Tools to Try
PlantUML, like Mermaid, is an open source tool that allows users to create diagrams from plain text descriptions. PlantUML is the original ‘diagrams as code’ platform. It has a deep feature set, can be integrated into just about any environment, and can be extended to fit just about any use case. For example, the most useful thing to me about PlantUML is its support for visualizing .JSON files.
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PlantUMLApp 3.0 - Let's play with AI Multi-Modality
New version 3.0 of my PlantUML App for iPad is out with exciting update! 🤩 The new multi-modality feature now lets you transform hand-drawn diagrams into PlantUML scripts with just a pencil ✍🏻 or your fingers 👆. Take a look 👀 to this short on YouTube and download it from App Store to support me 👍🏻.
- FLaNK Stack 26 February 2024
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What is your favorite tool for designing complex architecture, and why is it MS Paint?
Someone at work showed me https://plantuml.com/ recently. If you want your diagrams as code . Version controlled etc.. I highly recommend it.
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What's a piece of technology that you have work with at your job that you hate?
Maybe try PlantUML.
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Discovering the Power of PlantUML: Visualizing YAML, JSON, and More!
Open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw beautiful UML diagrams.
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Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
Seems like a considerable upgrade from PlanUML (https://plantuml.com/ - which is amazing, but sometimes you just can't seem to be able to align the stuff the way you want too).
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Entity Relationship Diagrams
plantuml is amongst the best there is. kroki.io has a sandbox for it mermaid.js can do it in notion, it works as well as any other mermaid. dbvisualizer is fantastic if you have an existing schema in a db instance. you may need the trial license to render the diagrams
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Pravljenje AWS strukturnog diagrama
PlantUML ima podsku za mnogo vise dijagrama - https://plantuml.com/ (bar za sada).
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How do I create UML diagram?
I mean, I know about PlantUML where you can write code that will generate cool diagrams and it's feels like one of solutions\implementations but not the right one. What actual way people in huge companies create UML diagrams for their projects? I can't find any software or language syntax, even guides on Youtube about UML is just hours of talking about all sorts of UML diagrams without ever mentioning any software or syntax or actual way to create them.
excalidraw
Posts with mentions or reviews of excalidraw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-06-06.
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✨ 5 useful productivity apps for every developer!
The app hosted at excalidraw.com is a minimal showcase of what you can build with Excalidraw. Its source code is part of this repository as well, and the app features:
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UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look
My absolute favorite for hand-drawn-esque elements is Excalidraw (https://excalidraw.com/). Immediately became enamored by the UX and the ability to get done what I was looking for. It stores everything locally on your browser, which makes it easy to work offline as well.
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Build a Scalable REST API with TypeScript, Express, Drizzle ORM, and Turso Database: A Step-by-Step Guide
To best illustrate this concept, I made a little sketch using excalidraw:
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How I built a Multiplayer App in 3 days
Just before I went to sleep last Sunday I thought it would be fun to create an app for my friends and I where we can rate the Eurovision Song Contest participants live together. The idea was to have everyones votes being tallied up live as we make adjustments to the ratings. This led me into looking at Replicache as the solution. I've been interested in trying it out for a while now and this was the perfect project for it. I quickly threw together a sketch on Excalidraw so I would have something to go on for tomorrow.
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🎨 CI/CD Workflow with AWS and Docker
Overall Process (tool:Excalidraw)
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17 Best Developer Productivity Tools to Try
Diagrams and visualizations are often indispensable when explaining complex concepts or designing system architectures. Excalidraw and Whimsical are two popular quick drawing tools that allow developers to create diagrams easily. With their simple yet powerful interface, developers can create wireframes, flowcharts, and other visual representations in no time. These tools are great for both brainstorming ideas and presenting concepts to stakeholders, making them valuable additions to the developer's toolkit.
- An infinite canvas for code exploration
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Creating Animated Diagrams for LinkedIn
ExcaliDraw - https://excalidraw.com/
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Software Engineering Workflow
ExcaliDraw
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Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer
However, Notion and Obsidian can only help you write documentation. Well, how about some visuals? Let's talk about Excalidraw.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing plantuml and excalidraw you can also consider the following projects:
Mermaid - Edit, preview and share mermaid charts/diagrams. New implementation of the live editor.
tldraw - SDK for creating whiteboards and canvas experiences on the web.
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
draw.io - draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.
kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!
obsidian-excalidraw-plugin - A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian
wavedrom - :ocean: Digital timing diagram rendering engine
docker-draw.io - Dockerized draw.io based on tomcat:9-jre11 & tomcat:9-jre8-alpine official image.
graphviz
drawio-desktop - Official electron build of draw.io