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This is a complete non starter for any regulated industry. Shame. Mermaid works almost okay and often looks like garbage. I wish there was an open source effor
by geraldwhen 4y ago
This is a complete non starter for any regulated industry.
Shame. Mermaid works almost okay and often looks like garbage. I wish there was an open source effort somewhere to do better, or even a paid locally runnable tool that has no service connections.
- Veuxdo 4y agoIlograph [0] is a similar (and, in my biased opinion, better) tool that has a 100% local runtime option (called Ilograph Desktop). You can still test-drive it with the browser version, of course. [0] https://www.ilograph.com https://www.ilograph.com
- JohnHaugeland 4y agoHere's an option: https://stonecypher.github.io/jssm-viz-demo/graph_explorer.html https://stonecypher.github.io/jssm-viz-demo/graph_explorer.h...
- tonerow 4y agoIt won't work for every use case but https://flowchart.fun https://flowchart.fun is one open-source alternative
- cush 4y agoIt's why I keep falling back to excalidraw over tools like mermaid with auto-layout. When I need to communicate an idea, often I really need to fuss with layout in order to get my point across, and having the control to drag things around is the only way to get there.
- kyriakos 4y agoProblem with non automated tools is that editing becomes a big issue since you have to reflow big parts of the diagram to make an addition. This is always my biggest issue with any diagram, the fact that they are evolving.
- cush 4y agoOh of course. This is the tradeoff. That said, over time a diagram's value will diminish regardless if you have auto-layout or not, since the codebase will always outpace documentation.