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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

Mentions per year 43 mentions · busiest year 2019 (8)
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  1. > What about this: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio That repository only contains the minified code, not the original source.
  2. > source code is not open What about this: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
  3. …... 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
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …an Electron application, so that is probably worth exploring[2]. [0] https://www.drawio.com/ [1] https://github.com/jgraph/drawio [2] https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop
    comment by fbdab103 · 2024-03-09 · in Monodraw
  8. …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.…
  9. …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.…
  10. 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
  11. > 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 )
  12. Why would they protect the source? https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
    comment by bertman · 2023-07-04 · in Cracking Electron Apps Open
  13. …You can use it online, saving to your cloud drive - Or you can install the desktop version GitHub: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
  14. …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
  15. 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)
  16. 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…
  17. …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
  18. …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
  19. so that seems to be: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
    comment by m463 · 2020-05-13 · in Every software system used at Gitlab
  20. …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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. …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
  24. …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
  25. 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:…
  26. …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
  27. Curious how to implement https://github.com/jgraph/drawio without JS?
  28. I have used http://draw.io before, it works well. This is the source https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
  29. …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
  30. …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
  31. …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/
  32. …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)
  33. …(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
  34. …Text and is also open source [2]. I work on the project. [1] https://www.draw.io [2] https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io
  35. …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
  36. https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io/pull/7 ?
    comment by davidjgraph · 2012-12-20 · in Draw.io Doomsday sale - 100% off for 24 hours
  37. …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