Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by ke4qqq » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 3:54 PM UTC

Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization
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Re: Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by straws » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:24 PM UTC

For instance, with Diagram Maker, application developers can enhance the experience for end customers by enabling them to intuitively and visually build cloud resources required by cloud services such as Workflow Engines (AWS Step Functions) or Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation) to get the relationships and hierarchies working.

Does this mean that Step Functions and CloudFormation will adopt this library? Both already have similar visualizations.

Re: Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:27 PM UTC

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Re: Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by wiradikusuma » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:33 PM UTC

I was hoping something better than Mermaid. Mermaid is great, but esp. its Gantt chart is too simplistic.

Re: Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by speedgoose » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:36 PM UTC

If you go to the Github repository, it's more understandable and it's actually pretty nice. I wish my company had a use case for this, so I could play with it.

Re: Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by revicon » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

Link to Github repo: https://github.com/awslabs/diagram-maker

Re: Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

This seems very specific to their IoT products, so it's weird they gave it such a generic name, like "Diagram Maker", which makes it seem like a competitor for something more generally capable like diagrams.net/draw.io.

Re: Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by Rapzid » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

Somewhat surprised they didn't build this on top of something like JointJS..

Re: Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by tylerdurden91 » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:54 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #7

This seems very specific to their IoT products, so it's weird they gave it such a generic name, like "Diagram Maker", which makes it seem like a competitor for something more generally capable like diagrams.net/draw.io.

This tool is not limited to AWS IoT products even though that is where this tool was born. You can use this tool for rendering any graph like structure like diagrams, flowcharts, etc.

See more details here: https://awslabs.github.io/diagram-maker/why/features.html#da....

Re: Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

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Post by notyourwork » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

Rapzid wrote: post #8

Somewhat surprised they didn't build this on top of something like JointJS..

For those without experience why is this a surprise?