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A comment on Ask HN: Do you use diagrams while developing software?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you use diagrams while developing software? by remram on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:18PM (#37170409)
I have an app that is growing a little complex, and today I am actually working on graphing the routes and the relations between those pages (breadcrumbs/XHR/redirects/links). It's actually really painful. I'm doing it with Graphviz.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you use diagrams while developing software? by tonerow on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:17AM (#37173621)
I’m the creator of flowchart.fun which is a quick text-to-diagram tool. If I’m being honest I didn’t use it much when developing stuff at first but of late I find it’s really nice if I have a mental dependency graph that I just want to visualize to help prioritize tasks and think about blockers. Mermaid.live is awesome for this. Anything you can drop into quickly imo
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Re:Ask HN: Do you use diagrams while developing software? by remram on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:12AM (#37175144)
The painful part is mostly collecting the data, inputting it into DOT is not too bad. The result is quickly turning into a hairball though.
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