Re:Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams
by frank13 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:50PM
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Hi. I created this years ago and have not been able to give it much attention lately. There is a very basic API, https://swimlanes.io/docs/api
Re:Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams
by frank13 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:53PM
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You can also embed a diagram. See https://jsfiddle.net/y6Lqpfcw/
Re:Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams
by imiric on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:46PM
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Much appreciated. That still does network requests and I wasn't able to make it work fully offline after downloading all the assets, but pretty nice nonetheless.
Re:Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams
by rockostrich on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:12PM
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Really? I downloaded the js file linked and set up an index.html with that snippet. The only requests being made were for FontAwesome stuff which you could also download and change the references to in that `embed.js`.
Re:Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams
by imiric on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:41PM
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Yeah, I gave up at changing the minified JavaScript, and would still prefer a saner and official offline solution from the author.
But it's not a request, I doubt I'll ever use this because of my initial points. If it was a CLI tool that converted plain text input to image I'd consider trying it out.
I've used websequencediagrams.com and PlantUML to create them before, and honestly I much prefer using an open source CLI tool for this than a closed source service, even if it's free to use. The day the site goes offline all my Git versioned diagrams would be useless.
If the authors are reading: have you considered releasing a standalone CLI tool? It could even be open sourcing the site itself and packaging it as a Docker image. If not, exposing an API like wsd.com has would be very useful.