pngsource
kroki
pngsource | kroki | |
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7 | 49 | |
105 | 2,704 | |
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0.0 | 8.7 | |
almost 2 years ago | 5 days ago | |
HTML | JavaScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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pngsource
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From Datalog to SVG
This is really neat. Reminiscent of how drawio.com can embed the source inside exported PNGs (see also https://github.com/Fusion/pngsource)
I would love to see this approach extended to add some animation too.
- Wails: Build beautiful cross-platform applications using Go
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
I see, in this thread, talks about what Sciter does and does not offer.
It's not the only alternative to Electron, but it might be one that offers predictable and repeatable results.
I released a small open source project on HN last week (https://github.com/Fusion/pngsource) and I wrote its backend logic in Go. I built the frontend using Tailwind (https://tailwindcss.com) and DaisyUI (https://daisyui.com) and, using Go compiler flags, I can release the app using both WebView (github.com/webview/webview) (which, yes, does require the host OS' collaboration) and Wails (wails.app) (which also does.)
On Linux/AMD64, the binary's size is 3.7M when building for WebView, and 6.8M when targeting Wails.
The way the app works is I drag/drop files to the UI, magic happens, and I use github.com/ncruces/zenity to prompt the user for a save location.
I cross-compile the apps using xgo (https://github.com/karalabe/xgo)
It's been working pretty well on Linux, Windows, MacOS. I think WebView's approach of limiting the feature set is working well as it feels more "native" than Wails (better refreshes and resize operations for instance)
However, I already have a few tickets reporting that, for instance, the app is displayed as a blank window in some environments. And it's hard to debug remotely, obviously. So, this is where Sciter may be a better option.
- pngsource: Embed Embed source code in png files
- Embed source code in png files
- Show HN: Embed your source code in PNG files
kroki
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WireViz: Easily document cables and wiring harnesses
Your wish showing up in the face of a submission just 14 days ago and then another 29 days ago must be indicative of why there are so many dupes all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kroki.io
You can feel free to submit the GH repo, as that one doesn't seem to have been submitted before https://github.com/yuzutech/kroki
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D2 Playground
Pikchr https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow is the other general purpose one and older than d2. It is "Source-Code License: 0-clause BSD" as it says on the page.
Someone made it into wasm and put playground for pikchr here https://www.jakethaw.com/pikchr_webassembly_demo/
Can also try pikchr online here on https://kroki.io/#try which is hosting many other text to diagram tools as well.
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Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
I use mermaid.js heavily, but plug for Kroki:
https://kroki.io/
“Kroki provides a unified API with support for BlockDiag (BlockDiag, SeqDiag, ActDiag, NwDiag, PacketDiag, RackDiag), BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), D2, DBML, Ditaa, Erd, Excalidraw, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, Pikchr, PlantUML, Structurizr, SvgBob, Symbolator, TikZ, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom, WireViz... and more to come!”
- Kroki: A unified API to create any kind of diagram from text
- Kroki – Creates diagrams from textual descriptions
- How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams
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Nomnoml
If you don't mind my asking, what aspects of "acceptable layout" is usually the first to get busted?
I'm extremely excited about using WireViz[1] to automate wiring harness diagram creation, and if I can, I'd like to know the speedbumps before I hit them. I'm thinkin generous linking between diagrams will be one path.
[1] Project:: https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz SandboxP:: https://kroki.io/#try [select Diagram>WireViz]
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LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games
The SVG output is embedded into the PDF file.
https://kroki.io/examples.html#mind-map
Kroki has other text-based formats for flow charts, Gantt charts, UML diagrams, packet diagrams, network diagrams, word clouds, etc.
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Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
My cross-platform desktop text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to define variables in an external YAML file. The editor calls out to Kroki[1] to convert text-based diagrams to SVG. The diagrams can reference variables and are rendered using EchoSVG[2].
KeenWrite[3] can produce PDF documentation from Markdown documents that has PlantUML diagrams with elements stored in an external, machine-readable file. Here are screenshots showing variables on the left, diagram text in the middle, and a real-time render on the right:
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
KeenWrite supports all diagrams offered by Kroki, which includes "diagram-plantuml".
[1]: https://kroki.io/
[2]: https://github.com/css4j/echosvg/
[3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
- Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
What are some alternatives?
quickjspp - Port of QuickJS Javascript Engine.
Mermaid - Edit, preview and share mermaid charts/diagrams. New implementation of the live editor.
plantuml-syntax - vim syntax file for plantuml
plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
venn.nvim - Draw ASCII diagrams in Neovim
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Modelio - Modelio is a modeling solution offering a wide range of functionalities based on the main standards of enterprise architecture, software development and systems engineering.
obsidian-releases - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.
KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.
Camunda BPM - Flexible framework for workflow and decision automation with BPMN and DMN. Integration with Quarkus, Spring, Spring Boot, CDI.