jgraph/drawio
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draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.
43 mentions on Hacker News by 31 people: 6 stories, 37 comments · first 2012-12-20 · latest 2025-10-18
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> What about this: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio That repository only contains the minified code, not the original source.
comment by rlkf · 2025-10-18 · in Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React? -
> source code is not open What about this: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by BrouteMinou · 2025-10-18 · in Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React? -
…... which seems to be a pretty decent Apache-2.0 free software licensed diagram editor: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/ ) Yes, this is true. Furthermore, the diagram information for draw.io is included in the SVG images themselves, so…
comment by 8dcc · 2025-01-09 · in Writing a simple pool allocator in C -
…which seems to be a pretty decent Apache-2.0 free software licensed diagram editor: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/ ) I think it would be improved further if it began with the calling interface callers use to invoke the allocator,…
comment by kragen · 2025-01-09 · in Writing a simple pool allocator in C -
…I'm looking for symbols such as these https://www.edrawmax.com/templates/1011842/ Additionally, https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/1660 would be a nice to have.
comment by etimberg · 2024-11-18 · in We are shutting down Ondsel -
…one of the most useful webapps has been getting the good old runaround from Google since March ( https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/4212 ).
comment by Normal_gaussian · 2024-11-11 · in Draw.io: Blocked for Installation by Google -
…massive undertaking. You need a team of people to work on this. Have you been looking at this site: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio ? The first features I see that are missing is the ability to define objects using text markups.…
comment by nashashmi · 2024-01-18 · in Show HN: DGM: A free online diagramming for the Web and AI -
…code. Here's an issue that was opened 5 days ago that probably triggered the README rephrasing: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/3782 > The file for converting the mermaid code to mxgaph xml is available only in minified version.…
comment by jraph · 2023-08-16 · in Draw.io: Open Source Online Diagramming -
Nah, they took the bulk of the renderer behind closed doors a while ago. Behold: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/blob/dev/src/main/webapp/mx...
comment by Rapzid · 2023-08-16 · in Draw.io: Open Source Online Diagramming -
> you will never know if draw.io will be around in a few years' time. https://github.com/jgraph/drawio#readme (Apache 2, at least for now )
comment by mdaniel · 2023-07-24 · in Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation -
Why would they protect the source? https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by bertman · 2023-07-04 · in Cracking Electron Apps Open -
…You can use it online, saving to your cloud drive - Or you can install the desktop version GitHub: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by eevilspock · 2022-05-10 · in Ask HN: What are some good non-subscription Mac apps? -
…of comments pointing out this is wrong, we need a practical alternative thought out in detail. [1] https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by davidjgraph · 2022-01-01 · in Truly Headless Draw.io Exports -
You are conflating "open source" with "open contribution". https://github.com/jgraph/drawio#open-source-not-open-contri... explains it neatly: > Similar to SQLite, diagrams.net is open source but closed to contributions. > The level of…
comment by TAForObvReasons · 2021-12-18 · in Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019) -
Draw.io is amazing! It has now been renamed to diagrams.net: https://app.diagrams.net/ Github repo: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio It's very easy to self-host, especially on Github Pages: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio#running There's…
comment by notRobot · 2021-04-26 · in Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development? -
…the complexity of the project from running away and ultimately killing the project entirely. https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by davidjgraph · 2021-01-28 · in Open-source, not open-contribution -
…everything from there on is handled in the browser. You can also install it in a rocker container. https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by wodenokoto · 2020-08-15 · in Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams -
so that seems to be: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by m463 · 2020-05-13 · in Every software system used at Gitlab -
…embeds an offline version of draw.io; I hadn't previously realised that this site is open source: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio Very neat!
comment by angrygoat · 2020-05-11 · in Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io -
Pleas file an issue at https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues . Can't recreate currently, but need more details.
comment by davidjgraph · 2019-11-13 · in Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website -
The code for writing is here: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/blob/master/src/main/webapp... Reading is here: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/blob/master/src/main/webapp... We're using the tEXt chunk.
comment by alderg · 2019-11-12 · in Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website -
…front-end) is quite hairy to understand and modify. I tried to add support for Github Enterprise ( https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/473 ) and was quite lost.
comment by freeman478 · 2019-11-12 · in Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website -
…Addtionally, you can deploy a local version via docker, or use the stand-alone desktop version, https://github.com/jgraph/drawio has the links.
comment by davidjgraph · 2019-11-12 · in Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website -
Draw.io is free and open source. Online, Mac, Windows, Linux. Online: https://www.draw.io/ Desktop: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/ Example diagrams: https://about.draw.io/features/examples/ Source code:…
comment by zaynb · 2019-11-09 · in Tools for turning descriptions into diagrams: text-to-picture resources -
…from the lightbox to navigate to the editor with the diagram loaded. 3) draw.io is open source, https://github.com/jgraph/drawio , if you don't want to depend on a third-party for the viewer, clone the repo, host it as a static site…
comment by davidjgraph · 2019-03-29 · in Brexit – where now? The flow diagrams -
Curious how to implement https://github.com/jgraph/drawio without JS?
comment by davidjgraph · 2019-01-30 · in Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website -
I have used http://draw.io before, it works well. This is the source https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by ntw1103 · 2018-12-15 · in Ask HN: Best open-source tool to help create a network architecture diagram? -
…or data. We don’t store your data. You own your data and the application is open source. Code here: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by eddyg · 2018-08-29 · in Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac -
…the AWS icons? Asking for others to contribute to open source is a generally accepted concept. https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
comment by davidjgraph · 2018-08-06 · in AWS icon quiz -
…are a bunch of similar systems, but not quite as smooth. draw.io is licenced under APL and usable. https://github.com/jgraph/drawio Then there is the horrible but very practical: https://docs.google.com/drawings/
comment by angry_octet · 2017-10-24 · in Ask HN: Are there drawing tool plugins to be used within forums? -
…effectively in a remote team (no offices here). Everything you produce will be open source, https://www.github.com/jgraph/draw.io . We're 7 digit annual revenue from licensing the tech (much of this is profit) and have no external…
comment by davidjgraph · 2017-08-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017) -
…(similar to MS Visio) to be very convenient. The code is also open source (Apache-2.0): https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io
comment by test9753 · 2017-06-12 · in Inkscape Moves to GitLab -
…Text and is also open source [2]. I work on the project. [1] https://www.draw.io [2] https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io
comment by davidjgraph · 2017-01-05 · in Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax -
…if it's useful, we created a formal state machine for using the JS client library, the code is at https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io/blob/master/war/js/diagram... . Turning it into a state machine helped visualize which error cases weren't…
comment by davidjgraph · 2013-02-27 · in MindMup just became 10x more useful -
https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io/pull/7 ?
comment by davidjgraph · 2012-12-20 · in Draw.io Doomsday sale - 100% off for 24 hours -
…or given the source to whole thing is on github, you could just look at the HTML of the page there, https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io/blob/master/war/about.html
comment by davidjgraph · 2012-12-20 · in Draw.io Doomsday sale - 100% off for 24 hours