10 Useful Text-based Flowchart & Diagram Tools For Web Developers

If you want to write documentation as a code and see the changes clearly in text format, here are useful 10 Text-based Flowchart & Diagram Tools For Web Developers to create diagrams just by typing some simple markup, and have it render a diagram anyone can view.



Mermaid

If you want to simplify your documentation and avoid using complex tools for displaying charts and diagrams, Mermaid might be just right for you.

mermaid

Flowchart.js

Draws simple SVG flow chart diagrams from textual representation of the diagram.

flowchart.js

js2flowchart

A visualization library to convert any JavaScript code into beautiful SVG flowchart. Learn other’s code. Design your code. Refactor code. Document code. Explain code.

js2flowchart

GoJS

It is a feature-rich JavaScript library for implementing custom interactive diagrams and complex visualizations across modern web browsers and platforms. GoJS makes constructing JavaScript diagrams of complex nodes, links, and groups easy with customizable templates and layouts.

GoJS

React Diagrams

a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works.

React Diagrams

TextDiagam

It is a web tool for drawing UML sequence diagram in pure text.

TextDiagam

PlantUML

Generate UML diagram from textual description.

PlantUML

drawthe.net

iT draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons. Given a yaml file describing the hierarchy of the network and it’s connections, a resulting diagram will be created.

drawthe.net

Text Sequence Diagram

Cross platform tool which convert text into beautiful sequence diagram.

Text Sequence Diagram

dbdiagram.io

Quick and simple free tool to help you draw your database relationship diagrams and flow quickly using simple DSL language.

dbdiagram.io

0 Comments

  1. Juliensays:

    Hi,

    You may want to add textografo.com to this list

    Best regards,
    Julien

    • meowsays:

      textgrafo looks really crappy – it’s pay to use and i struggle to see any value that other things don’t already provide for free

      maybe they should add a freemium model

  2. Vladsays:

    Hi Henry,

    I suggest one more tool for software architecture diagrams – https://www.gleek.io

  3. rob gordonsays:

    Does flowchart.fun belong on this list?

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