ALalixanderwang·Apr 2, 2023
Looks great! Giving it a try, posted a $220 bounty: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/921
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D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
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D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
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11 sourceswe embed some CSS in SVG outputs to make animated diagrams for our text-to-diagram language: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/releases/tag/v0.3.0
In When SVG almost got network support for raw socketsD2 0.3: text to animated diagrams
9 points · Open discussionRight. It's okay to leave written documentation on SaaS (e.g. Notion), because the text is the artifact. If they're shutting down, or I don't like them anymore, I just move the text. But if Ilograph goes down, all I have is useless YAML.
Our team went through this thought process when we decided to open source our text-to-diagram language, users need to be able to reproduce their docs even if we shut down (https://github.com/terrastruct/d2).
In Concrete Diagramming, a Lightweight Alternative to C4D2 v0.2.5 (text-to-diagram language)
1 points · Open discussionD2 v0.2 (open-source text-to-diagram language)
2 points · Open discussionD2 v0.2.2 (text-to-diagram language)
3 points · Open discussionDiagrams that change colors for dark mode preference
1 points · Open discussionyou can do this in Terrastruct (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhxVVkxv2Ns), which uses the open-source D2 (https://github.com/terrastruct/d2) for its code
In Architecture diagrams should be code