Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
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Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#2Hey y'all, I've been working on this part time for a couple of years now. Recently it started getting more traffic so I thought I'd try sharing this project with hacker news. If it's useful to you, and the free app is good for most use cases, then hopefully it will reach wider audience. Cheers.
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#3Oh man this looks really neat. Thanks for building it.
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#4Hey y'all, I've been working on this part time for a couple of years now. Recently it started getting more traffic so I thought I'd try sharing this project with hacker news. If it's useful to you, and the free app is good for most use cases, then hopefully it will reach wider audience. Cheers.
Looks great! I couldn't get any of the Download options to work, but following the links from the Share menu to, e.g. the PDF version, did work.
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#5This is just great. Are you planning to introduce an "Export as GraphML [0]" function? My ideal workflow would be to use code2flow to quickly build up the core of a flowchart, and then importing it into a full blown flowchart editor like yEd for the fine tuning.
[0] GraphML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphML
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#6Hey y'all, I've been working on this part time for a couple of years now. Recently it started getting more traffic so I thought I'd try sharing this project with hacker news. If it's useful to you, and the free app is good for most use cases, then hopefully it will reach wider audience. Cheers.
Do you use a handwritten parser for input?
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#7This is awesome! Any chance it can somehow output to a text based chart?
This is basically what has been preventing me from using https://monodraw.helftone.com/ - i didn't want to draw simple flowcharts. If this can output text for a sane price, you've got a customer!
(though, i would prefer an offline app, fwiw)
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#8This is just great. Are you planning to introduce an "Export as GraphML [0]" function? My ideal workflow would be to use code2flow to quickly build up the core of a flowchart, and then importing it into a full blown flowchart editor like yEd for the fine tuning. [0] GraphML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphML
Interesting idea, I'll definitely look into it and let you know. :)
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#9Hey y'all, I've been working on this part time for a couple of years now. Recently it started getting more traffic so I thought I'd try sharing this project with hacker news. If it's useful to you, and the free app is good for most use cases, then hopefully it will reach wider audience. Cheers.
Is the layout using https://github.com/cpettitt/dagre
?
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#10Hey y'all, I've been working on this part time for a couple of years now. Recently it started getting more traffic so I thought I'd try sharing this project with hacker news. If it's useful to you, and the free app is good for most use cases, then hopefully it will reach wider audience. Cheers.
Do you use a handwritten parser for input?
After trying hand-written approach and later perl's Parse::RecDescent I ended up using peg.js (http://pegjs.org) parser generator. It was probably the most flexible and performant out of all the options I tried.