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I love the product, not only does it have an easy to use web/offline app, I am also able to checkin the diagram source into git for version control, see: https://github.com/roapi/docs/blob/main/src/images/roapi.dra.... Then I can use automations to generate images based off that source file: https://github.com/roapi/docs/blob/main/src/images/roapi.svg.

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You can also save your drawings using the option that embeds the drawio diagram source into the rendered svg or png file, and check that single file into git.

Then (a) no need for an automation to generate the image; (b) any image or svg is directly editable.

You can also embed the source into a png or svg and commit those to the repo. Diagrams.net will allow you to open from the source embedded png or svg.

This is possibly one of Diagrams's killer features, especially in the days of proprietary cloud document hosting that (poorly) attempts to hide the "file" abstraction. You can plunk your diagram directly into the doc without worrying if you'll be able to keep track of the source if you need to edit it later.

How can I share a link for the diagram with a friend/team member & collaborate?

Save it to Google Drive or OneDrive and share that with them.

Depends on how its shared... but... if you pull up https://app.diagrams.net

Do an 'Open from' > 'URL...' and paste in http://shagie.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Untitled-Diagra... (an example diagram I made several years ago) - its a png itself and you can open that up as a png, but I also exported it with the drawing embedded.

So when you open that up in the app, you'll get the drawing - not the raster version.

Also consider that I created that png 7 years ago - other drawing document formats have been less stable over that timeframe. I'm quite impressed with it.

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