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GoJS 2.2: JavaScript and TypeScript Diagramming library

86 points by simonsarris 5y ago

JenniferRM 5y ago
Huh... The graph editing is coming from inside the browser! https://gojs.net/latest/learn/interactivity.html https://gojs.net/latest/learn/interactivity.html
rhacker 5y ago
It looks very easy to use. I might have to use this for something.
hajhatten 5y ago
Not to be confused with GopherJS, the Go->Javascript compiler https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs
devy 5y ago
They have a non-standard source license. I doubt the legal would be excited engineering team to adopt some of these in the codebase. https://gojs.net/latest/license.html https://gojs.net/latest/license.html
- deleted 5y ago
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- imachine1980_ 5y ago
  I think the problem is that you need to subscribe to know the pricing model, I don't try anything that don even show the pricing up-front and what difference licenses they offer, is like they want you to make into production before you notice that you have unlicensed software and pull the trigger if you dont pay. that's is really nasty business model.
  - Veuxdo 5y ago
    Looks like their pricing is here: https://nwoods.com/sales/index.html https://nwoods.com/sales/index.html
    - tekacs 5y ago
      Which is behind the ‘Buy’ button in the top nav. Not sure what happened in the grandparent comment, but it’s very much transparent and easy to find. It also has a neat calculator, so it’s easy to figure out exact pricing for various scenarios, which is quite unlike so many closed libraries I’ve seen. Running in dev mode it also has a visible watermark on it, which says “GoJs evaluation © Northwoods Software. Not for distribution or production use nwoods.com”, meaning there’s almost zero chance that you wouldn’t notice at dev time that you’d need to license this before putting it into production.
- simonsarris 5y ago
  (I make GoJS) Although several companies do negotiate custom license agreements with us, it is not very common. Almost all the names here use the standard license: https://nwoods.com/sales/customers.html https://nwoods.com/sales/customers.html
FnuGk 5y ago
despite the name, this confusingly have nothing to do with the go programming language
- Scarblac 5y ago
  Well that's to be expected if you name your language Go. It's not exactly distinctive, is it?
- jerf 5y ago
  Their github repo goes back to 1.4.0 or so around Apr 2014; their changelog goes back to 1.0.0. Go 1.0 was released March 2012. GopherJS' first commit is showing as Aug 2013. I'm not sure what GoJS' first release is but it seems likely to me it predated the Go project that really looks like "GoJS" and plausible that it predated Go 1.0 entirely. So it looks like just one of those things.
  - jjtheblunt 5y ago
    I also can't find proof, but I think Go the language was previously essentially Limbo the language at Bell Labs in the Plan9 OS world, and when the team moved to Google they updated Limbo naming it Go. It seems (from simonsarris comments) that GoJS was created in the Limbo naming era, and is itself an acronym.
- simonsarris 5y ago
  We started with Go++ (C++) more than two decades ago, and went on to make Java, .NET, and JavaScript versions of the library. "Go" here stands for Graph Object, GraphObject being the base class for drawn objects.
ehutch79 5y ago
Is this not a go library?
montroser 5y ago
In a past life I spent many months deep in this library. There were some good things about it. Documentation is decent, performance was good, and their support was great. But still, it was a massive hindrance not to be able to dig into the library source when needed. I spent days grokking decompiled library code in order to get done what needed getting done. When it came time to grow the team, I couldn't in good conscience ask new hires to invest in learning all of this proprietary bespoke SVG-like-but-different ecosystem, knowing it would be frustrating and learnings would likely not be fundamentally applicable to other future endeavors.
- greymalik 5y ago
  What did you use instead?
- cyanydeez 5y ago
  just clicking around, i cant even tell what the license is in the free evalustion stuff. it definitely looks professional and probably worth it, but the site itself doesnt seem to sell any bootstrap model.
yboris 5y ago
For those interested in seeing the call graph within your TypeScript code, try TypeScript Call Graph https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph
yboris 5y ago
My favorite diagramming software is yEd graph editor. My favorite feature: automatic layout (decreasing overlapping lines, etc). https://www.yworks.com/products/yed https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
klaussilveira 5y ago
This one has a better license: https://github.com/clientIO/joint https://github.com/clientIO/joint And this one is nice too: https://github.com/bpmn-io/diagram-js https://github.com/bpmn-io/diagram-js

86 points by simonsarris 5y ago

Huh... The graph editing is coming from inside the browser! https://gojs.net/latest/learn/interactivity.html https://gojs.net/latest/learn/interactivity.html

rhacker 5y ago

It looks very easy to use. I might have to use this for something.

hajhatten 5y ago

Not to be confused with GopherJS, the Go->Javascript compiler https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs

devy 5y ago

They have a non-standard source license. I doubt the legal would be excited engineering team to adopt some of these in the codebase. https://gojs.net/latest/license.html https://gojs.net/latest/license.html

deleted 5y ago
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imachine1980_ 5y ago
I think the problem is that you need to subscribe to know the pricing model, I don't try anything that don even show the pricing up-front and what difference licenses they offer, is like they want you to make into production before you notice that you have unlicensed software and pull the trigger if you dont pay. that's is really nasty business model.
- Veuxdo 5y ago
  Looks like their pricing is here: https://nwoods.com/sales/index.html https://nwoods.com/sales/index.html
  - tekacs 5y ago
    Which is behind the ‘Buy’ button in the top nav. Not sure what happened in the grandparent comment, but it’s very much transparent and easy to find. It also has a neat calculator, so it’s easy to figure out exact pricing for various scenarios, which is quite unlike so many closed libraries I’ve seen. Running in dev mode it also has a visible watermark on it, which says “GoJs evaluation © Northwoods Software. Not for distribution or production use nwoods.com”, meaning there’s almost zero chance that you wouldn’t notice at dev time that you’d need to license this before putting it into production.
simonsarris 5y ago
(I make GoJS) Although several companies do negotiate custom license agreements with us, it is not very common. Almost all the names here use the standard license: https://nwoods.com/sales/customers.html https://nwoods.com/sales/customers.html

FnuGk 5y ago

despite the name, this confusingly have nothing to do with the go programming language

Scarblac 5y ago
Well that's to be expected if you name your language Go. It's not exactly distinctive, is it?
jerf 5y ago
Their github repo goes back to 1.4.0 or so around Apr 2014; their changelog goes back to 1.0.0. Go 1.0 was released March 2012. GopherJS' first commit is showing as Aug 2013. I'm not sure what GoJS' first release is but it seems likely to me it predated the Go project that really looks like "GoJS" and plausible that it predated Go 1.0 entirely. So it looks like just one of those things.
- jjtheblunt 5y ago
  I also can't find proof, but I think Go the language was previously essentially Limbo the language at Bell Labs in the Plan9 OS world, and when the team moved to Google they updated Limbo naming it Go. It seems (from simonsarris comments) that GoJS was created in the Limbo naming era, and is itself an acronym.
simonsarris 5y ago
We started with Go++ (C++) more than two decades ago, and went on to make Java, .NET, and JavaScript versions of the library. "Go" here stands for Graph Object, GraphObject being the base class for drawn objects.

ehutch79 5y ago

Is this not a go library?

montroser 5y ago

In a past life I spent many months deep in this library. There were some good things about it. Documentation is decent, performance was good, and their support was great. But still, it was a massive hindrance not to be able to dig into the library source when needed. I spent days grokking decompiled library code in order to get done what needed getting done. When it came time to grow the team, I couldn't in good conscience ask new hires to invest in learning all of this proprietary bespoke SVG-like-but-different ecosystem, knowing it would be frustrating and learnings would likely not be fundamentally applicable to other future endeavors.

greymalik 5y ago
What did you use instead?
cyanydeez 5y ago
just clicking around, i cant even tell what the license is in the free evalustion stuff. it definitely looks professional and probably worth it, but the site itself doesnt seem to sell any bootstrap model.

yboris 5y ago

For those interested in seeing the call graph within your TypeScript code, try TypeScript Call Graph https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph

yboris 5y ago

My favorite diagramming software is yEd graph editor. My favorite feature: automatic layout (decreasing overlapping lines, etc). https://www.yworks.com/products/yed https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

klaussilveira 5y ago

This one has a better license: https://github.com/clientIO/joint https://github.com/clientIO/joint And this one is nice too: https://github.com/bpmn-io/diagram-js https://github.com/bpmn-io/diagram-js