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Re: Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

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Post by jiveturkey »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #83

Diagrams seem to be on everybody's mind recently ;) Question: are there any good tools to automatically represent (almost) any code as diagrams? Use case: I wrote a pretty complex simulation in Python, which is a little hard to explain to my colleagues. I would like to have, e.g., a sequence or a swimlane diagram to help others understand what is going on. I would like this diagram to be automatically generated by ot…

wouldn’t you need to use a call graph generator? like cscope but for python?

here’s a ref to get you started: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/517589/tools-to-get-a-pi...

Re: Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

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Post by pugworthy »

jonahx wrote: post #5

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

Plantuml won't even run with uBlock on. Well it will run, but no diagram. Not that interested in trying to divine just which little thing it wants on to work given there are so many alternatives.

Re: Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

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Post by sverhagen »

pugworthy wrote: post #93
jonahx wrote: post #5

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

Plantuml won't even run with uBlock on. Well it will run, but no diagram. Not that interested in trying to divine just which little thing it wants on to work given there are so many alternatives.

Okay. That's a bummer. But also: PlantUML is a lot more, or a lot different than another online diagramming tool. Their strength is expressing the diagrams using plain text. Having used my share of tools, l have never not hated drawing sequence diagrams, but in plain text it is a dream. They have command line tools, IDE integrations, etc.

Re: Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

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Post by wormik »

avodonosov wrote: post #6
jonahx wrote: post #5

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

https://sequencediagram.org is another alternative

Yeah - happy user of this one for years :)

Re: Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

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Post by gregmac »

andreareina wrote: post #85
gregmac wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plantuml plugin within Confluence is pretty nice for documentation, and arguably a super-power because it makes it easier to make good docs ("a picture is worth a thousand words"). 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 corr…

Big fan of PlantUML, didn't occur to me that there'd be Confluence plugins. Which one are you using?

I didn't realize there were multiple now! We use "PlantUML for Confluence" [1] now but have had that for a few years. The live preview thing some of the others seem to have would be nice.

[1] https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/41025/plantuml-for-co...

Re: Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

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Post by RamblingCTO »

I like the tool but I hate that you use resources from Google servers and font awesome. That's against German (and I guess European) data protection laws, the DSVGO. That's because you route my traffic (well, I have a blocker, but for other users) without consent to servers which are not needed for your operation.

I never understood why website operators don't just serve their scripts and fonts locally.

Re: Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

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Post by flower-giraffe »

jonahx wrote: post #5

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

Plantuml can also style as hand drawn with a skinparam https://plantuml.com/handwritten

Re: Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

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Post by elric »

jonahx wrote: post #5

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

Let's not forget the venerable UMLet (https://www.umlet.com). It's simple, cross platform, and supports a variety of UML diagrams using a text-based syntax.
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