A tremendous useful feature, well to me at least, is to let user specify graph data structure with associating data and export the data after drawing is done
Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for pointing this out! Now I can draw.io offline :)
Doesn't a footer pop up when you save locally on the online version telling you about the desktop version?
I saw "download" and clicked it thinking to download the diagram and closed the webpage without looking at it. Maybe it's me, or it might need UX work.
Great website. (and I will be downloading the desktop client :)
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#53Draw.io is a great application. I integrated it into BookStack (Documentation System) as a way for people to create and manage drawings in the platform. Was much easier than I expected and David (davidjgraph) was very supportive.
Productivity tools often do integrate draw.io, but often are just embedding. Bookstack is one of the best integrations, the create and edit flow is exactly how we intended it.
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#54For those without MS Visio or other paid alternatives, Draw.io can pretty much get you covered at zero cost, with the option of doing it client-side, online, etc. Not sure if the founders have the option, but I would encourage folks to donate a couple of bucks to encourage high quality free software such as this.
I’ve found the draw.io experience to be so far above Visio that I just can’t imagine going back. I put it up there with VLC and Handbrake as quality apps.
Even as a common dirty pirate; I donated to all of those.
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#55It's a really nice software, great tool, thanks to people behind it!
I'm wondering about the licenses of icons, clipart or other shapes that are available for the diagrams. There are a lot of shapes, are they all usable without counterpart in any document (private or public)? If not, is there a way to check the licenses of the shapes we want to use?
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#56I couldn't tell, why was this trending today? I didn't realize this was open source, I too am a draw.io user. :)
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#57Is it possible to add Monodraw ( https://monodraw.helftone.com/ ) style text art to this ? I would pay for something that is browser only and generates really nice text art for diagrams.
Can you elaborate more about "text art"? I just recently purchased monodraw, after seeing it linked from Brandur's blog([1]), but have only done basic diagrams with it.
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#58I used to use Draw.io a lot more than I do now, and it is a wonderful tool, the only reason I use it less now is because I've been using: PlantUML ( http://plantuml.com/ ) with demo at ( http://planttext.com ). Creating most diagrams through a simple markup language that can be version controlled and rendered on demand has been really nice for me, and sometimes I would spent SO MUCH TIME in draw.io making sure my arr…
> I would spent SO MUCH TIME in draw.io making sure my arrows were even, making the pixels line up, making sure I used the right shape with the right font size, etc,
I think most of us feel this!
I agree PlantUML makes that a lot easier. The thing is, the second you need to make something other than a UML, you’re going to another tool.
That said, while draw.io does an excellent job of their connector and arrow system usually getting it close, a UML or some sort of “strict grid mode” would be nice.
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#59It's a really nice software, great tool, thanks to people behind it! I'm wondering about the licenses of icons, clipart or other shapes that are available for the diagrams. There are a lot of shapes, are they all usable without counterpart in any document (private or public)? If not, is there a way to check the licenses of the shapes we want to use?
For all the icons built into the app we've performed due diligence that the source allows them to go into the app and allows publishing in any format, or we built them internally from scratch. And yes, we need to publish the audit trail for that, it's on my todo.
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#60We recently had management ask for some diagrams of our applications infrastructure. Draw.io made that so easy with their pre-made components and export to PDF. Will definitely use it again.
The pre-made components and user lib is huge.
I was at Amazon working on something - their own engineer was using draw.io to quickly grab AWS icons for Lambda, IoT core, API Gateway etc and place them into his flow chart.
He said they had a library somewhere of AWS artwork, but it was easier to just use draw.io’s art lib.