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Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

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Nicely Done! I played with a simple OAuth2 flow and it worked great. I'm going to see about using it for all of our documentation. Business is probably too steep for us and we wouldn't want on-prem anyway. A Saas Pro plan might be interesting if it's affordable. Note: Download to PDF failed silently for me. Printing worked great. I haven't tested SVG or PNG yet.

I'm glad you like it. I just deployed a fix that should address the download problem. Cheers.

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

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Hey, I'm not sure what you mean but if you can post a link to a broken flowchart I could try fixing it.

The front page demo does it with the while loop.

I see, this arguably makes such loops easier to follow. I'll look into making it optional though.

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

#23
I've been playing with a real time visualization of various graph visualizations that have nice text DSLs. Current progress is open source and includes an Atom Package for editing and visualizing results on the fly, as well as a command line tool for generating SVGso from the textual representations.

https://atom.io/packages/diagrams

and

https://www.npmjs.com/package/diagrams

Desktop oriented for offline use.

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

#24

I've been playing with a real time visualization of various graph visualizations that have nice text DSLs. Current progress is open source and includes an Atom Package for editing and visualizing results on the fly, as well as a command line tool for generating SVGso from the textual representations. https://atom.io/packages/diagrams and https://www.npmjs.com/package/diagrams Desktop oriented for offline use.

Nice, thanks for sharing. :)

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

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I love your idea, and I think it seems like a nice implementation. But feel your price point will push this well beyond its value.

There is Sass version in the works that will be probably $10/mo - still working on the features and billing.

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

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Cool tool. How does this compare to http://flowchart.js.org ?

After trying both, Code2flow is much easier to use for quick diagrams but not as feature rich. Flowchart.js has a bit of a learning curve IMO but much more powerful. Code2flow has free and paid options. Flowchart.js open source.

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

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The front page demo does it with the while loop.

I see, this arguably makes such loops easier to follow. I'll look into making it optional though.

I've seen this before but the edges join together cleanly: one of the edges "merges" (like a freeway on-ramp) with the other edge.

In the demo on the front page, there's clearly a pseudo-node that the edges stop at, and it's jarring.

edit: this thing: http://snap.philsnow.io/2016-11-18T11-19-57.mpfpkk55hj0dunqf...

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