WBO VS draw.io

As a maintainer of an open source JavaScript infinite canvas application [1], I was very interested, and now I am a little disappointed. The set of supported objects on the canvas is quite minimal.

[1] https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir

Could a self-hosted whiteboard work? * Excalidraw allows images to be inserted * WBO has a built-in grid mode (but no ruler)

You can share and use a Scrumblr only with the link. But no possibility to import other than opening the same board again (and exporting, printing the page as PDF). Same with the whiteboard WBO, but much more complete and polished one (and has SSL).

Aside from kanban boards, a virtual whiteboard might also work well: * Excalidraw (live) * WBO (live)

A whiteboard thing? Like WBO or Spacedeck

Fluffyboard and WBO - I prefer Fluffyboard because it has an Android app.

This one seems to work well: https://wbo.ophir.dev/

It's basically this: https://wbo.ophir.dev/

At first I thought this was drawio: https://www.drawio.com/ with which you can generate a schema diagram from SQL. Is this the other way around.

For anyone who is willing to use a webapp, I like drawio[0]. You can download locally[1] and self host (I just use the python webserver).

While finding the Github, I see they now actually package an Electron application, so that is probably worth exploring[2].

[0] https://www.drawio.com/

[1] https://github.com/jgraph/drawio

[2] https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop

draw.io works nicely for flowcharts and other types of diagrams.

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  The source code authored by us in this repo is

Another way that you can leverage the power of ChatGPT and mermaid is when you are using a software designing tool such as Draw.io and you want to skip the tedious task of creating a diagram from scratch and want to get a push at the begging and save your time for the creative part of the diagram.

There are also mockups with more features, so ignore weird UI at first.

[1]: https://www.drawio.com

> Additional minified JavaScript files and Java libraries are used in this project. All of the licenses are deemed compatible with the Apache 2.0, nothing is GPL or AGPL, due dilgence is performed on all third-party code.

Here's an issue that was opened:

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/3782

> The file for converting the mermaid code to mxgaph xml is available only in minified version. the unminified version "mermaid2drawio.js" is missing. Please include that.

Answer:

> We do not supply the source to that file.

With such phrasing, for now, I'll consider drawio proprietary with some parts in Apache 2 (even if it's actually the majority of the code).

It might be possible to have a fork with some optional features related to these non provided files removed, if by luck no critical feature is impacted.

Specifically I've been working on an incremental game and I've been using https://www.drawio.com/ to help me plan out what I want the progression of features/unlocks to be as the player progresses through the game, what pre-requirements/events are for each feature/unlock, etc.

> you will never know if draw.io will be around in a few years' time.

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio#readme (Apache 2, at least for now)