Agreed, I have a kind-of-live graphviz editor in a webpage, with autocomplete and a few more things. Was fun to hack together

I used to generate most of my diagrams in PlantUML[0], but recently found that my not-taking app, Joplin[1], has Mermaid built in.

PlantUML has the benefit that you can include it in your builds, e.g. parse any .plantuml files in `make doc` or in your CI.

But I like Mermaid more: its easier to read, less quirky and easily integratable in the markdown (or note-taking apps) without the need for extra build steps.

[0] https://plantuml.com/ [1] https://joplinapp.org/

One of my favorite applications in R that can make Graphviz like plots: http://rich-iannone.github.io/DiagrammeR/index.html

Viz.js had some hard coded memory limits last time I checked. You can work around them on load, but it's annoying.

Edit: GraphQL Voyager has the memory increase hack https://github.com/APIs-guru/graphql-voyager/blob/54a178142a...

An alternative to dagre-d3 is d3-dag: https://github.com/erikbrinkman/d3-dag

I've had good success with cytoscapejs as well, integrating with react so the graph will animate layout on transition. I use elk, which is apparently superior to sugiyama (the algorithm graphviz uses for force-directed dag layouts).

I think dagre was ok but oversold the quality of the algos it used a bit. In many cases it can be better to use a SVG file generated from Graphviz directly instead.

I found cytoscape to be annoying because it assumes you are using npm.