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Prior art: 1. Plant UML: http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/umla/SoWkIImgAStDuNBCoKnELT... PlantUML supports many diagram types, and there's a nice VS Code plugin with side by side live preview. 2. https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ Has a hand-drawn style option which is nice: https://i.imgur.com/lh4jaVL.png
Thanks for sharing! Sequence diagrams are awesome. I've used websequencediagrams.com and PlantUML to create them before, and honestly I much prefer using an open source CLI tool for this than a closed source service, even if it's free to use. The day the site goes offline all my Git versioned diagrams would be useless. If the authors are reading: have you considered releasing a standalone CLI tool? It could even be o…
https://github.com/kjagiello/diagwiz
https://diagwiz.io/playground/ (not really mobile friendly)
Generating quick sequence diagrams helps a lot to articulate ideas. Ever since wfh, I have used these tools a lot of communicate design flow with team mates.
Thanks for sharing! Sequence diagrams are awesome. I've used websequencediagrams.com and PlantUML to create them before, and honestly I much prefer using an open source CLI tool for this than a closed source service, even if it's free to use. The day the site goes offline all my Git versioned diagrams would be useless. If the authors are reading: have you considered releasing a standalone CLI tool? It could even be o…
Hi. I created this years ago and have not been able to give it much attention lately. There is a very basic API, https://swimlanes.io/docs/api
I read edible :(
Prior art: 1. Plant UML: http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/umla/SoWkIImgAStDuNBCoKnELT... PlantUML supports many diagram types, and there's a nice VS Code plugin with side by side live preview. 2. https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ Has a hand-drawn style option which is nice: https://i.imgur.com/lh4jaVL.png
The source shows up in edit mode (no external app needed; and it's always correct) and it handles the rendering for you, thus reducing friction.
In other places I've seen people attach a PNG. If you're lucky, they've also attached the corresponding (and up-to-date) source in visio/draw/ppt/whatever random app format, in which case making a small edit might only takes ten of minutes. In the worst case, it's missing source, the source file is not the same as the PNG, or they used some program you don't have, and you have to totally redo it. For most people if the friction is too high, it just doesn't get updated.
Sequence diagrams seem like the go--to format for displaying data flow in a microservice-type environment, but even though there is a plethora of implementations in various languages and technologies that generate diagrams of this kind, they all lack certain functionalities, number one being the support for threads. Some solutions do provide the "par" fragment, but this is inadequate when message ordering corresponds…
Blockdiag/Seqdiag has a pretty good RST integration for Sphinx.
Lately I've been using the ZenUML diagram plugin for Confluence which lets you do sequence and other diagrams using Mermaid-JS.
Considering that the author of swimlanes.io seems to have mastered the part where the diagram is encoded into a URL, it feels like making plugins to popular documentation systems is the obvious next step to making this useful for engineering orgs.