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by guessmyname 2142 days ago
Nice project. Thanks for sharing. One more for my collection.

I already use Monodraw [1] which works great to document stuff in code.

Runway [2] and Diagrams [3] for my presentations and README files.

And recently, I’ve been using mingrammer’s Diagrams Python tool [4]. I am very excited about this pull-request on GitHub [5] where some people are creating a web wrapper in Flask around this project so that we can generate the diagrams à la http://webgraphviz.com which is quite similar to established products like Draw.io [6] and CloudCraft [7]. Someone also posted about InfraMap [8] a couple of days ago [9] and I’ve noticed the developers have made several improvements to the graphs in the last couple of days.

I hope Jumble’s developer gets good feedback too.

I’d recommend replacing the GIF with static images or at least put a progress bar (here [10] is a program written in Go to do that) because it is very difficult to understand the first time what is happening in the animation with all the code-to-graph-and-back-to-code jump cuts.

Keep up the good work.

[1] https://monodraw.helftone.com

[2] http://celestialteapot.com/runway/

[3] https://diagrams.app

[4] https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams

[5] https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams/pull/201

[6] http://draw.io

[7] https://cloudcraft.co

[8] https://github.com/cycloidio/inframap

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860701

[10] https://github.com/nwtgck/gif-progress

2 comments

I so agree with that last paragraph. I just saw a blank grid and was about to close it and comment about maybe posting an example image and then I realised that the animation slowly built up the image... Even then, though, I just wanted to see the end result not wait for the step by step.
Hi! Thank you very much! And thanks for the hints about the GIF! I'm writing docs and more samples and with the next release I'll replace the GIF with docs and static images.