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by alixanderwang 7y ago
There is a read only link, that’s what the demo is. Under the drop down for the diagram (hovering the diagram name in the top center), you can find a Presentation Mode. Then just share that link. Thanks for the feedback!
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Your nitpicks are absolutely welcome! Re: sizing: interesting, that’s the first report of it failing, I indeed should do a require desktop version. Are you talking about the landing page or the app? The app uses javascript to detect, the la
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
I'm using this low level SVG library: https://svgjs.com/docs/3.0/
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Ah. Yeah if this is something people use and I can support myself with it, I would love to work on adding that.
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Same. It's for different purposes, but I 100% recommend using draw.io for simple one-image diagrams. This tool is specialized for complex systems that you can't fit in a single image.
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Thanks for that feedback. I'm working on that, I'll let users be able to play around with editing the demo with no save functionality without creating an account.
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Yeah you're right, I should allow users to load examples. Thanks!
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
As shapiro92 commented, it's for the purpose of conveying that it can be embedded. You're right that I should make that more clear, I appreciate the feedback.
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Thanks! Are you referring to this? https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/ If so, that looks like the output is still single-image diagrams. The differentiation of Terrastruct is having an elegant way to aggregate
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
This is an excellent suggestion, I might just do that. Thanks!
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
What do you mean by textual? Like ascii art? In general I’d love to be able to export this to some non-web format, but I just don’t know any that fit given that there’s 3 dimensions (layers of the diagram, scenarios for each layer, and fram
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Yeah I thought about this as well and is something I originally imagined as a cool feature. The problem, though, is that not everyone will create a sub-layer for every component. It'd be a bad user experience for the viewer to have to
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Some educational content made with this tool: An overview of modern Javascript tools https://app.terrastruct.com/diagrams/788622353
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
The UI iterations of this app over 2 years: https://twitter.com/alixanderwang/status/1212875949101875200
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
This is designed for sequences! You have to create a scenario (name of your sequence, eg “auth request”), and then you create frames for it. Frames are steps of a sequence. I used to use websequencediagrams.com for this btw, in case that fi
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Yeah I’ve gotten more draw.io comments than I expected haha. I didn’t know it was mainstream enough to say “like X for Y”, but I’ll add something to mention it. Thanks for the feedback!
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
See the thread above (currently), I responded there on this question.
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
There is a send feedback feature, it’s in the drop down under your username top left. Thanks so much for reporting that, because I had only tested it extensively in Chrome and hadn’t seen that. Edit: I've fixed it. (apparently you can&
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
So for example, I’d often want to add some sequences to diagrams, and the only way to do so is by numbering the connections, which in my experience becomes too messy/confusing after the single digits. Another example is if I’m diagramm
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
That’s what I use as well! And it works perfectly when what I’m diagramming is pretty simple. It’s just that when I’m trying to diagram anything nontrivial, I can’t map it out on a one dimensional diagram without it turning into a mess. Tha
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Hi HN, I made a diagramming tool specifically for explaining systems. It's something that I felt like I could've needed at my previous engineering jobs when I was explaining some software architecture or concept that were complex
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Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems(terrastruct.com)
187 points by alixanderwang 7y ago|99 comments
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An overview of modern JavaScript web app development tools(app.terrastruct.com)
3 points by alixanderwang 7y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 7y ago
Thanks! I'm not quite ready yet, but when it "officially launches" I will submit it =).
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Evolution of design for a diagramming app over the span of 2 years(twitter.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 7y ago|2 comments