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by abetlen 1878 days ago
pikchr is awesome. A project I did recently was a WASM-compiled pikchr library to generate diagrams directly in the browser [1]. Here's a very early demo of a live editor you can play around with [2].

Not fully-featured yet but what I'd like to eventually do is set it up in a similar way to the mermaidjs editor [3]. They encode the entire diagram in the url. That makes it really easy to link to from markdown documents and has the nice benefit that the diagram is immutable for a given url so you don't need a backend to store anything.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pikchr-js

[2]: https://pikchr-editor.insert-mode.dev/

[3]: https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid-live-editor