D2 Playground

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • d2-playground

    An online runner to play, learn, and create with D2, the modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

  • TALA

    A diagram layout engine designed specifically for software architecture diagrams

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • kroki

    Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!

  • 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.

  • dmd

    dmd D Programming Language compiler

  • dagre

    Directed graph layout for JavaScript

  • It was unmaintained for a long time (maybe considered done implementing the algorithm it set out to), but recently a Google engineer has revived it: https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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