Please provide a way to generate diagrams locally, without uploading to any cloud service.

[venthur]

It would be very nice if the CLI could operate completely locally: you provide a .dsl file and it spits out several .png (or similar) files. Since it seems graphviz based it shouldn't be strictly required to create a structurizr account and upload files for processing there, right?

[simonbrowndotje]

The Structurizr renderer creates diagrams client-side (i.e. in the web browser), so it's not possible to generate them via the CLI. Some options you have:

• Use the CLI to export to PlantUML, and generate PNGs locally using that toolchain.
• Use Structurizr Lite - a free Docker-based version of Structurizr that can be run locally.

The Structurizr renderer can be used in conjunction with headless Chrome and Puppeteer (here are some example scripts) to generate PNGs via the command line. A paid cloud service subscription will give you directly embeddable PNGS too.

[simonbrowndotje]

structurizr-to-png might also be useful if you want to go down the PlantUML route.