Diagram as Code • Hacker News Board

Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by kovek » Tue, May 12, 2020, 11:43 PM UTC

kovek wrote: post #18

This is cool! I was hoping it would look something like: ‘’’ import diagrams calc_d = diagrams.new_diagram(“calculator_123”) calc_d.Datum("SuperNumber") class SuperNumber(int): pass @calc_d.Service(“Calculator”, “takes numbers and operations and operates”) class Calculator(object): @calc_d.Endpoint("Add", calls=["Increment"], main_data={"b": "SuperNumber}) def add(self, a, b: SuperNumber): out = a for i in range(b):…

For anyone finding a solution to code blocks... I write these comments from Safari on my iPhone

Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by ktaylora » Tue, May 12, 2020, 11:49 PM UTC

Came here half-expecting to see probabilistic programming implemented via Direct Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). This is cool, too, though.

Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by arduinomancer » Tue, May 12, 2020, 11:51 PM UTC

bingo_cannon wrote: post #17

This looks really neat! Is it possible to have embedded diagrams. For example, Gitlab lets you embed a PlantUML[1] diagram in any Markdown or ADoc file using a proxy server. This makes it really easy to write and serve documentation. Personally, I'm a fan of PlantUML. Having an svg served in a browser that has labels linking directly to the relevant entity (code, resource etc) is a huge plus for new hire onboarding.…

I wish plantUML would update it's default theme, I feel like more people would use it if it didn't look ancient.

Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by arminiusreturns » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:21 AM UTC

If you are interested in this kind of thing please check out the blockdiag series of tools (seqdiag, rackdiag, netdiag, etc) I haven't looked back since I started using them other than a workplace that uses lucidchart.

http://blockdiag.com/en/

Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by chrisweekly » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:39 AM UTC

Slight tangent, but some of the cool tools noted in the comments remind me of some of the amazing things put out by Netflix engineering in recent years, like Vizceral^1 and Flux^2.

1. https://github.com/Netflix/vizceral/wiki

2. https://link.medium.com/LY2vw4Rsr6

(Sorry about the Medium.com link; all I could grab on the spot on phone)

Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:48 AM UTC

fold_left wrote: post #51

> from diagrams import Diagram Slightly off-topic, but I wish JavaScript's import syntax was designed to be this way around, for better autocomplete in your editor.

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Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by gentleman11 » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:54 AM UTC

arduinomancer wrote: post #63

bingo_cannon wrote: post #17

This looks really neat! Is it possible to have embedded diagrams. For example, Gitlab lets you embed a PlantUML[1] diagram in any Markdown or ADoc file using a proxy server. This makes it really easy to write and serve documentation. Personally, I'm a fan of PlantUML. Having an svg served in a browser that has labels linking directly to the relevant entity (code, resource etc) is a huge plus for new hire onboarding.…

I wish plantUML would update it's default theme, I feel like more people would use it if it didn't look ancient.

I personally enjoy the style of it, but it could be described as “retro.”

Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by sleet » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:58 AM UTC

fold_left wrote: post #51

> from diagrams import Diagram Slightly off-topic, but I wish JavaScript's import syntax was designed to be this way around, for better autocomplete in your editor.

SELECT column FROM table

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Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by heisenzombie » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:28 AM UTC

The author has made DSL in Python by (ab?)using context managers and the bitshift operator. It's very interesting, and I haven't seen anything quite like it.

Python can lend itself to horrific abuses through shenanigans like this. I sometimes feel that siren call myself, and usually regret it.

So by default I'm pretty skeptical of this kind of thing, but I'm actually on the fence about this one.

Re: Diagram as Code

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Post by subhobroto » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:49 AM UTC

bingo_cannon wrote: post #17

This looks really neat! Is it possible to have embedded diagrams. For example, Gitlab lets you embed a PlantUML[1] diagram in any Markdown or ADoc file using a proxy server. This makes it really easy to write and serve documentation. Personally, I'm a fan of PlantUML. Having an svg served in a browser that has labels linking directly to the relevant entity (code, resource etc) is a huge plus for new hire onboarding.…

PlantUML and Mermaid have really been very useful to me!

It feels like I'm missing something with this tool if one's already aware of Mermaid (and PlantUML)