omg this is beautiful, great job!
Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
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#12omg this is beautiful, great job!
Thank you!
Re: Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
#13This is fantastic. I've always used JavE before but this being a single HTML file is a big+ and packs quite a punch. Kudos to the author! One question though, how do edit the content later? For example I generated a few diagrams one at a time and pasted those in a local plain text file. Later when I want to edit a particular diagram/part, I tried copy pasted it in, but always got "cannot paste, content leaves canvas"…
Glad you asked. Have you checked the online version https://cascii.app There, all exported drawings come with a short link. This is so that months later anyone reading / seeing can edit their own copy online / keep it up to date. You can also create an account to manage your own drawings. Side note - when you use real pasting, it will not remember meaningful information (that's very hard to do elegantly). In your exa…
Makes sense. Thank you for making and sharing this.
Re: Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
#14This is fantastic. I've always used JavE before but this being a single HTML file is a big+ and packs quite a punch. Kudos to the author! One question though, how do edit the content later? For example I generated a few diagrams one at a time and pasted those in a local plain text file. Later when I want to edit a particular diagram/part, I tried copy pasted it in, but always got "cannot paste, content leaves canvas"…
Glad you asked. Have you checked the online version https://cascii.app There, all exported drawings come with a short link. This is so that months later anyone reading / seeing can edit their own copy online / keep it up to date. You can also create an account to manage your own drawings. Side note - when you use real pasting, it will not remember meaningful information (that's very hard to do elegantly). In your exa…
Hi, great app. I'd love to understand how you are maintaining state behind that short url and see if there are ways (sans server) to at least partially recreate state from the exported ascii.
Having an Import from clipboard would truly make this a remarkable app.
Re: Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
#15This is amazing thank you. Have been using asciimap or whatever, but this works so much better. Thank you.
Re: Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
#16Looks super cool, congrats!
Monodraw[1] is a similar product delivered as a standalone macOS app. It’s a classic pay once-type license and very polished software. Cannot recommend enough! I’ve always wanted something as good on Linux though, will definitely give this a go!
Re: Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
#17Looks super cool, congrats! Monodraw[1] is a similar product delivered as a standalone macOS app. It’s a classic pay once-type license and very polished software. Cannot recommend enough! I’ve always wanted something as good on Linux though, will definitely give this a go! [1] https://monodraw.helftone.com/
Happy user of Monodraw. I paid for it once a long long time ago and I use it once or twice a year.
Re: Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
#18it's literally just a single html file
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Re: Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
#19This is amazing, thank you for sharing it. Aside from being a very useful documentation tool, I hope it inspires more people to distribute simple standalone software utilities in this way.
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#20interesting, i generally use artist mode in emacs but this seems to have more options.