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[post 2.0] svgbob integration #226

Closed matthiasbeyer closed 6 years ago

matthiasbeyer commented 6 years ago

Would be awesome and maybe a nice idea to integrate svgbobrus for rendering graphs.

Maybe not for the next release (as this is already packed with new ideas and todos) but for the release after the next one...

vitiral commented 6 years ago

We would need to compile it as javascript and do the rendering client side. I'm not insterested in having server side rendering for this application.

Even if we did have that, I'm not 100% convinced what the benefits are vs graphviz. I suppose it gives you even more control. You can also do things like write circuit diagrams, so that could be useful to some people.

One of the issues is that if I did integrate this, I would want the text editor to be significantly better, as editing these by hand looks like a complete pain.

Just a couple of blockers off the top of my head. This feature is probably going to be a long way out (like after we convert to using yew for the frontend 😄 )

(Note: I was going to be using svgbob before I learned that graphviz existed, so I'm not completely against this idea!)

matthiasbeyer commented 6 years ago

I like svgbob because it is WYSIWYG (kinda) ... graphviz is not. Just to note that! Awesome that you consider it!

vitiral commented 6 years ago

I think svgbob integration is unlikely in the forseeable future. Closing, but thanks for the suggestion!

bbigras commented 6 years ago

Server side support for many tools like svgbob, plantuml, GraphViz, mermaid... would be a killer feature. I would switch design documentation tool for that.