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Show HN: Swimlanes – A web app for creating sequence diagrams with Markdown

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I use PlantUML(graphviz) for this.

http://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7017-plantuml-integrati...

http://plantuml.com/eclipse

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jebbs.pl...

https://github.com/scrooloose/vim-slumlord

http://zbz5.net/sequence-diagrams-vim-and-plantuml

http://plantuml.com/emacs

Looks like a subset of the open-source https://mermaidjs.github.io/

Hi. Im Frank, creator of swimlanes.io, would love to get some feedback!

Great tool, I use it often.

I like that it is online. Often, when you need a quick sketch for your presentation or colleges, you don't want to open a desktop tool (you might not even have).

I would appreciate drag-able interface on the right (I know it is hard but it would definitely be a plus).

Connect a git repo or gist would be also nice.

I've also seen integrations to Google Drive where you can store it as a document.

Do you have any further plans with this tool? Cover more UML diagrams and so.

Thanks for the feedback! Diagram is not drag-able but support inline editing with double click. Google Drive integration is in the works. Gitbook plugin available: https://plugins.gitbook.com/plugin/swimlanes-io. Had the initial ambition to support flowcharts but want to ace sequence diagrams first

I’d like to use it to create dynamic/procedurally generated swimlane diagrams on my website but I can’t find any github repos or CSS/JS license files or anything else. I couldn’t even find your name as the author, which made the whole thing feel weirdly sketchy in ways I’m not accustomed to with developer tooling.

And by procedurally generated, I mean I’d like the swim lane diagrams to update dynamically in the DOM as the user is working on the site rather than needing to have your server render them as bitmaps each time the user changes something.

Looks useful, i think i'll use it. Any chance of SVG export?

Happy to hear. No plans for SVG export. Have not found any good HTML to SVG tool. Any suggestions?

Used this to draw a FSM for a shared videoplayer library we built. Made it a lot easier to communicate changes across teams.

Thought about building something similar with mermaid.js but this has more options and gets the job done.

This looks useful but the "with markdown" part seems odd.

The diagram parts are not meaningful at all if rendered by a regular markdown app. Perhaps you meant the notes are md?

What about logical diagrams? anything for that?

I use this tool a lot. Simple but effective!

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