vscode-drawio

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SHOW HN2020

142points
14comments
#432of 3,028 in 2020
Top 15%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful for drawing workflows and to-do diagrams without leaving the editor

    From 1 comment
    • Thanks a lot for these! I don't know if I'm going to use real time collaboration precisely, but porting Draw.io to VSCode allowed me to have a much better experience in personal…
      lukasdanin on HN
  • Looking forward to trying it

    From 1 comment
    • I love draw.io .. looking forward to trying this out.
      lwhi on HN

Objections

  • Draw.io is point-and-click and tedious compared with keyboard-driven mind mapping

    From 1 comment
    • While I enjoy tools like draw.io---I much prefer something like XMind because I don't want to have to manually connect nodes, and it becomes overly tedious. Tools like draw.io…
      markawesome on HN
  • Lacks textual, drag-and-drop hybrid editing like PlantUML

    From 1 comment
    • I wish Draw.io was textual/visual, something like PlantUML but in interactive way I mean you be able to drag & drop components, as well as see its "easy-to-use" textual code to…
      ReD_CoDE on HN

Requests

  • Text-based YAML diagram format with automated layout and mind-map summaries

    From 2 comments
    • While I enjoy tools like draw.io---I much prefer something like XMind because I don't want to have to manually connect nodes, and it becomes overly tedious. Tools like draw.io…
      markawesome on HN
    • While I'm only interested in an open source solution, the YAML formatting they are using is almost exactly the style I was looking for. That would be a huge improvement to the…
      markawesome on HN

Questions

  • When to use Miro versus Draw.io for collaborative editing

    From 1 comment
    • Can anyone share opinions on when to use say Miro versus Draw.io? Ideally for collaborative editing, and then incorporating in GitHub Markdown, Jira and Confluence. I dither…
      stevesimmons on HN

Alternatives named

  • Miro

    From 2 comments
    • Can anyone share opinions on when to use say Miro versus Draw.io? Ideally for collaborative editing, and then incorporating in GitHub Markdown, Jira and Confluence. I dither…
      stevesimmons on HN
    • Miro’s UX is fantastic, ‘it’s quite smooth and responsive to use. I can’t think of many advantages Draw has over it, other than the lack of paywall on useful features I used to…
      scanny on HN
  • dbdiagram.io

    From 1 comment
    • There's also dbdiagram.io that focuses exclusively on database diagrams. Nice thing about it is you can just write simple DSL code and they render the diagrams automatically. The…
      huy on HN
  • XMind

    From 1 comment
    • While I enjoy tools like draw.io---I much prefer something like XMind because I don't want to have to manually connect nodes, and it becomes overly tedious. Tools like draw.io…
      markawesome on HN
  • PlantUML

    From 2 comments
    • While I enjoy tools like draw.io---I much prefer something like XMind because I don't want to have to manually connect nodes, and it becomes overly tedious. Tools like draw.io…
      markawesome on HN
    • I wish Draw.io was textual/visual, something like PlantUML but in interactive way I mean you be able to drag & drop components, as well as see its "easy-to-use" textual code to…
      ReD_CoDE on HN
  • Ilograph

    From 1 comment
    • Not sure if this has anything to do with what you had in mind, but user veuxdo pointed me at it earlier today https://www.ilograph.com/ I found it interesting anyway. Everything…
      jcims on HN

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