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drawio
JavaScript2012–2025
jgraph / drawio

drawio

draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year43 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-12-20 15:13:40 UTC to 2025-10-18 18:04:25 UTC.

024682012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

What Hacker News says

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dimly·Oct 26, 2023Submission

Is a fully open-source draw.io possible?

According to <https://github.com/jgraph/drawio#license>: The source code authored by us in this repo is licensed under the Apache v2. The full core is open source, but the are some boundary functions that are difficult to publish in a way we can maintain them. That leaves it unclear what is and isn't open-source. The same README refers to a "recommended Docker project". However, that project appears to use the <https://github.com/jgraph/drawio> repository with the unclear licence. (Evidence at <https://github.com/jgraph/docker-drawio/blob/05c4a673d9bd4e272ce9b3ac28e504c705f92…> and <https://github.com/jgraph/docker-drawio/blob/05c4a673d9bd4e272ce9b3ac28e504c705f92…>, taken together.)
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jraph·Aug 16, 2023
We are studying this internally. We are finding out that this might actually not be the case: > The source code authored by us in this repo is licensed under the Apache v2, however, we do not claim to be an open source project. > [...] > Additional minified JavaScript files and Java libraries are used in this project. All of the licenses are deemed compatible with the Apache 2.0, nothing is GPL or AGPL, due dilgence is performed on all third-party code. Here's an issue that was opened 5 days ago that probably triggered the README rephrasing: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/3782 > The file for converting the mermaid code to mxgaph xml is available only in minified version. the unminified version "mermaid2drawio.js" is missing. Please include that. Answer: > We do not supply the source to that file. With such phrasing, for now, I'll
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consider drawio proprietary with some parts in Apache 2 (even if it's actually the majority of the code). It might be possible to have a fork with some optional features related to these non provided files removed, if by luck no critical feature is impacted. (or, even better, provide an alternative, open source implementation for these files, of course)
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