asciiflow

I've used GitHub Pages for a long time to serve sites for free, notably https://asciiflow.com, however I have recently moved it and other sites to CloudFlare Pages - it's also got a very generous free tier and many other useful features that GH pages lacks. Setup is simple - https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow/blob/main/.github%2Fwork... GitHub Actions is just great, and I think people overlook again how much you can do for free! As the author highlights, I use it for running workflows on a schedule, which you can use to rebuild static sites hourly, so they aren't so static after all.

There is another, related class of tools, and that is graphical editors of the Unicode box-drawing characters: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow https://github.com/tbanel/uniline/ Or, less ergonomically, the general rectangle-editing commands built into more powerful code editors e.g. Emacs. With these, simple but fairly pretty box+line+text diagrams can be inlined with your source code comments. This unification may help in the perennial struggle to keep software architecture and source code reality in sync.

Strange that a pretty common way to serve static sites is not mentioned: Multi-stage Docker builds [e.g. 1] an nginx-alpine image in Gitlab CI, that is automatically deployed to Kubernetes/a Docker host somewhere. Add the Let's Encrypt Container for automatic SSL. [1]: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow/blob/fd0f72714cd307cbb02...

I've discovered that the crippling bug in asciiflow [1] is not present when running it in FireFox, to my great relief. [1] https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow/issues/185

This is explained by a comment from the author (bootywizard) above: Author here - it does but it doesn't, which is why it doesn't always work so well. It never actually keeps track of the shapes in a seperate data model - the text itself is the only data model. When you resize, it retraces out the lines that need editing. I did this as the expected use case is for diagrams in code, where diagrams may be copy pasted in and out of the tool and I'd lose any underlying models that I was working with. For fun: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow2/blob/master/js-lib/draw....

Author here - it does but it doesn't, which is why it doesn't always work so well. It never actually keeps track of the shapes in a seperate data model - the text itself is the only data model. When you resize, it retraces out the lines that need editing. I did this as the expected use case is for diagrams in code, where diagrams may be copy pasted in and out of the tool and I'd lose any underlying models that I was working with. For fun: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow2/blob/master/js-lib/draw...

I haven't tried it, but could it be this one? https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow2

See also previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=asciiflow.com Also, this looks like it is the repository for ASCIIFlow and you can run it locally: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow2

I wish it was javascript! It's a Google App Engine-based Java monster: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow