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Class, activity and use case diagrams are not in vouge with the development teams. And if they do use them , they tend to be in Visio or with similar tools when they need to be created for requirements / design documentation etc., Somewhat related , https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/ could be used as well.

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What diagrams do you see used in dev teams these days?

In our team (non enterprise), there's a lot of visual flow models for UX, and still some class/interaction/activity diagrams for explaining how stuff hangs together.

I've been using BPMN to unpick what businesses are doing and document it. It's been great to check assumptions like "We need software to do X in this way" -- which on inspection doesn't match with what needs to be done, but what has been done.

I've done the diagrams using the free Camunda Modeler [1], and they have an online version [2].

1. https://camunda.com/download/modeler/

2. https://bpmn.io/

Been using https://arcentry.com/ for architectural diagram. They offer a 3D viewer that can be embedded as well

I've used this to help sketch out a DB schema several times.

Have you seen this one? I have been using that and it's pretty awesome. Exports nicely too.

https://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/demo/?keyword=default

I had not, but then I was using a DSL for sql generation.

Another one: https://github.com/knsv/mermaid

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