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markushedvall / node-plantuml

A Node.js module and CLI for running PlantUML
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Should use viz.js when graphviz is not installed #25

Closed atifsyedali closed 5 years ago

atifsyedali commented 5 years ago

A lot of npm users would benefit by just doing an npm install node-plantuml without having to worry having graphviz installed on their system. Currently, there is a way to do this by using viz.js, which is graphviz compiled using emscripten, and then wrapping that inside a jar by executing with V8. This sounds convoluted but it works well. See http://plantuml.com/vizjs

markushedvall commented 5 years ago

Yes, I have been planning to try it out at some point as graphviz installation is a bit painful to have as a dependency. Thanks for your interest in this and I would really like to able to add it as a feature.