mdaines

viz-js

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mdaines / viz-js

viz-js

Graphviz in your browser

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Graphviz in your browser

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Wait, was this really written in 93? There's no way, right? Was JS even this functional back in 93? Hmm, I wonder what the cite at the bottom means then: Object Oriented Graphs…

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	3
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2

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nikeee·Mar 17, 2022

Author of a web-based GraphViz editor [1] here. We're currently using viz.js [2], which is the original GraphViz compiled to WASM. Since viz.js is unmaintained, we're looking for a replacement. This library looks really promising! As it's written in rust, it should be possible to port it to WASM. Are there plans in that direction? Is it planned to be a drop-in replacement for GraphViz (or the dot engine)? [1]: https://edotor.net [2]: https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js

In Show HN: A Graphviz Implementation in Rust

kjhughes·Jan 17, 2022

- Dagre (deprecated, unfortunately): https://github.com/dagrejs - Viz.js (via Emscripten): https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js; Online demo: http://viz-js.com/

In Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software

jgalt212·Nov 13, 2020

I've had better success with viz.js. (Graphviz cross compiled to javascript). https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js I could never get the layouts in cytoscape to look balanced.

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stefco_·Jul 19, 2019

The dot language used by graphviz is simple enough and portable to web implementations [0][1]. I think this is more useful for its specific domain. [0] https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre-d3/wiki [1] https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js

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sillysaurus3·Jan 5, 2018Recommendation phrase

Wait, was this really written in 93? There's no way, right? Was JS even this functional back in 93? Hmm, I wonder what the cite at the bottom means then: Object Oriented Graphs Stephen North, 3/19/93 Searching Stephen North brings up a very interesting Google Scholar page full of citations about graphs and dot: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_QJP9-0AAAAJ&hl=en Neato. (Ha. Cue yakety-yak music.) Holy moly! Attention HN, we have a delightful mystery on our hands! Sound the alarm: http://www.webgraphviz.com/viz.js So who cares? Well, it's clojure-compiled for one, so all the variables are all Yu Ugy Jagugnug (i.e. Worf would understand). For two, the js-beautified version is 56,586 lines! What could this be? It's all hardcore math/algorithm type code. No comments, no indication of how to pick up the scent. Hmmm. Welp, there goes m

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y afteroon. See you on the flipside. tugs feverishly at massive ball of string^Wyarn^WJS Here's a beautified gist, if you want to dig. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/52cd90a1fa9c36b1b3e87a431d... (Seriously though, WTF is going on in that file? The last time I saw 55k lines of condensed algorithms, it was when I concatenated together all of emacs' source code from one of its earliest commits.) Oh.. Is this just emscripten? It looks like compiler output. Yeah, "g | 0" is an asm.js trick. Man.. This is a really effective way to obfuscate code, holy moly. So I'm guessing that's just graphviz's C code? EDIT: Yup. At the very bottom, there's a single string, literally the only string in the entire file that gives any clue what the heck is going on: "vizRenderFromString". And indeed, it leads us to https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js/blob/a8f5fd9ec41482e31bb0b... and more generally to the viz.js codebase: https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js Oh, duh. Graphviz was written back in '93, and that sample code contains a citation back to its author. What a cool program! And a cool sequence of layers... I love the onion-y nature of modern computing.

In WebGraphviz: Graphviz in the Browser

asutherland·Oct 13, 2017

viz.js (https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js demo at http://viz-js.com/) is graphviz compiled to JS using emscripten. graphviz-d3-renderer (https://github.com/mstefaniuk/graph-viz-d3-js demo at http://graphviz.it/) uses viz.js to render to (x)dot format, then parse that so you can use d3 on top of it. Using those two, you should be able to leverage the layout smarts of graphviz with the presentation smarts of d3.

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karboosx·Jun 26, 2017

Apparently some people also wanted graphviz syntax: https://github.com/knsv/mermaid/issues/5 I also find another project called Viz.js[1]. It's graphviz in javascript. Looks promising. It's hard to choose between this two. On the one hand is very simple syntax, and on the other hand more flexibility. [1] https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js/

In Designing state machines

dorianm·Jan 6, 2017

There is also Graphiz compiled to JS which works: https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js

In Graphviz in the browser

fiatjaf·Apr 5, 2015

https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js/

In JavaScript libraries to draw your own diagrams

jumpwah·Sep 29, 2014

Do you convert graphviz diagrams client or server side? ...I'm thinking of going mathjax style client side (for the convenience) with https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js/, if I ever need it. (I'm making yet another static site gen...)

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contingencies·Sep 16, 2013

PERT, eh? 1950s dies hard! It's good to have a model though. I would still ramp up the big-picture risk side. One benefit of that is that you could consider tying in to an operational risk management system with onselling potential to client projects post-launch. I am looking right now but finding it hard to locate anything meaningful in this area, probably as it crosses many units of conventional businesses. Also, you may like https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js/ which I recently found generates high quality SVG vectors from graphviz input in pure JS which you can make clickable/interactive and will print at any resolution: I'm using it in a cloud infrastructure management console, myself.

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