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Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by Jeaye »

tlb wrote: post #29

Could you support nice-looking causal diagrams? Most look like the bubble-and-line diagrams in [Pearl 95]( http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/R218-B.pdf ). I think it would increase their popularity (and the quality of science) if it was easy to include nice ones in papers & blogs.

I tried this and documented my thoughts here: https://github.com/varkor/quiver/issues/45

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by Aeolun »

sirjaz wrote: post #27
varkor wrote: post #23

I'm happy to see people are interested in the editor! Let me also point out that I wrote a short blog post about the motivation behind quiver, as well as some of its key features, here: https://varkor.github.io/blog/2020/11/25/announcing-quiver.h...

Are there any plans to make this a desktop app. I despise graphical editors in a browser

An electron wrapper?

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by pabs3 »

sirjaz wrote: post #27
varkor wrote: post #23

I'm happy to see people are interested in the editor! Let me also point out that I wrote a short blog post about the motivation behind quiver, as well as some of its key features, here: https://varkor.github.io/blog/2020/11/25/announcing-quiver.h...

Are there any plans to make this a desktop app. I despise graphical editors in a browser

It is written in JavaScript, so you will need a browser of some kind (Electron is basically a browser), unless it gets re-written in a different language.

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by sharat87 »

I just took a cursory look at the Javascript source and looks like it's built without any view framework or even jQuery. Is this correct?

As a backend developer curious about such frontend development, could you write up on how to architecture large apps without a reactive view framework behind. Or, if a write-up like that exists, a pointer would also be great.

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by locusofself »

chris_st wrote: post #13
3327 wrote: post #3

Interesting choice of name. i was looking for such a tool. Gui are still limited in 2020

Unfortunate name collision with the macOS/iOS note taking app Quiver [1] which doesn't do diagrams, but does do LaTeX. [1] https://happenapps.com

I enjoyed using Quiver (the note taking app) for a while, but switched to Windows for most of my professional work (at Microsoft). Now I just keep a folder called "Quiver" in my vscode workspace with my code snippets.

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by ta988 »

sirjaz wrote: post #27
varkor wrote: post #23

I'm happy to see people are interested in the editor! Let me also point out that I wrote a short blog post about the motivation behind quiver, as well as some of its key features, here: https://varkor.github.io/blog/2020/11/25/announcing-quiver.h...

Are there any plans to make this a desktop app. I despise graphical editors in a browser

Diagrams.net is using electron for the desktop app, it works really well (and is fast despite what people often beieve of electron)

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by da39a3ee »

sirjaz wrote: post #27
varkor wrote: post #23

I'm happy to see people are interested in the editor! Let me also point out that I wrote a short blog post about the motivation behind quiver, as well as some of its key features, here: https://varkor.github.io/blog/2020/11/25/announcing-quiver.h...

Are there any plans to make this a desktop app. I despise graphical editors in a browser

It's written in javascript, you entitled twerp! The author has created this beautiful tool for free in his/her spare time.

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by redvenom »

toomim wrote: post #18

What's a "commutative" diagram?

It is a diagram whose vertices are mathematical objects and whose arrows are morphisms (often functions) between those objects such that any two paths between two vertices represent the same morphism/function. Typically it is used to infer information about one morphism or object using others, by keeping track of many properties at once in a graphical fashion.
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