viz.js VS asciiflow

Generally, you're best off with Viz.js, an emscripten transcompile of GraphViz

Other resources - Graphviz and Viz.js helped me a lot in in creating graphing app I built before I knew of these other libraries. "Graph visualization" was what I was searching for.

To modify it, go to http://viz-js.com/, select Engine: circo and paste the following code: ``` digraph G { // Colors. See https://graphviz.org/doc/info/colors.html. Pikemen, MenAtArms [style=filled, fillcolor=lightskyblue1] Archers, Crossbowmen [style=filled, fillcolor=khaki] Horsemen, Knights [style=filled, fillcolor=lawngreen] Rams, Springalds, Mangonels, Trebuchets [style=filled, fillcolor=plum]

This might fit the bill in js land http://viz-js.com/

> but the bundle is enormous - over a megabyte of data

If only DOT layout engine and JSON output format is enabled at compile time it is about 600KiB, or less than 200KiB Gzipped. https://github.com/rapidlua/viz.js

> A nice thing about having an SVG render is that it's very easy to attach events, and inline SVGs can be styled with CSS.

Indeed it’s super handy! I’m using this approach in https://LuaJIT.me to produce an interactive visualisation of a graph of traces in a JIT compiler.

> 7. You can put them in the source where they are relevant.

> Got a hairy state machine? Stick a comment at the top with something like nomnoml's syntax and anyone can follow what's going on without having to trace through the code.

For that use-case a markup graph language is a poor solution. Use https://asciiflow.com instead to produce something that people can digest without needing a third-party tool that may not even exist anymore.

Many diagrams I am able to draw manually as I'm editing source code on emacs, but for more complicated ones I tend to use this: https://asciiflow.com . To each their own, so pick your favorite ASCII editor.

This isn't at all what you are asking for but I use it in code all the time for flow-charting logic. https://asciiflow.com/ And on the plus side, the output is very portable.

Combination of: - http://maaslalani.com/slides/ - for slides - figlet/toilet/cowsay/lolcat - for generating titles and ascii art - https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow - for charts and diagrams

So I used this website: https://asciiflow.com to draw out the diagrams and then pasted them into the LCDs using the monospace font! An LCD is 39x58 "ASCII tiles" FYI if you wanted to do this too!

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