svgbobrus VS sauron

I recently had to draw some diagrams for documenting something. After looking at various Markdown-friendly options I landed on svgbob[1]. I believe it's a superior solution to these kinds of graph drawing tools for Markdown for one specific reason: the code is still readable. When I go to look at a Markdown file I don't always open the output. I will commonly open up a README file in Vim or just cat it to the terminal. In this case diagrams like those in this post is next to useless. I'm not going to read through some complex drawing definitions and try to visualise the results. With svgbob (or Typograms[2] or any of the other similar options) you can still read the Markdown text document and see the diagrams which is great!

Of course this comes with a tradeoff, drawing the diagrams can be a bit of a pain. But I believe this can be solved by a good Markdown editor or editor plugin. Alternatively a spec like this could be converted into an svgbob-compatible diagram.

[1]https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/

Online playground svgbob-editor is also updated to use the latest version of svgbob. It is however a painfully slow to edit the diagrams from there, so it's better if you draw the diagram somwhere else and paste it to there.

https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/

Code

svgbob

Fellow Pinoy programmer here. I would say Rust has a bright future ahead. I have a few opensource project in rust as well.

This project started as a way to test out sauron web framework, but it turns out to be usable and can be embedded in a web applications such as markdown source code renderer.

There is also sauron Disclaimer: I'm the author

This was a fixed to an issue, but I ended up formulating a new diffing algorithm which solves all of the corner cases.

Try sauron, no ceremonial code, straight to the point, clean and concise with lots of examples

There is a code example here that allows you to use custom elements with sauron, maybe it's a good starting point for a working web component.

Under the hood, sauron uses mt-dom crate. The diffing algorithm in mt-dom has been extensively overhauled to work on all edge-case while allowing a much faster traversal for the generated patches.

Sauron https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron is also crazy fast.

sauron - a web framework in rust, as a replacement for react, or elm.