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Launch day is here! Our team is proud to present our open source product, Svelvet is a lightweight Svelte component library for building interactive node-based flow diagrams.

Easy install with a NPM or Yarn package!

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It looks like the title got changed and now it says Svelte instead of Svelvet. Congrats on the launch!

Thanks for the credits (creator of React Flow here)! Our website is MIT and so are the docs and all the content but I don't get that you just copied content like whole sentences of the docs or parts of the readme for example.

Why not? If the content is technical and the concept is near identical then why waste time writing the same thing a different way?

Looks like a software bootcamp project, so they probably did it to save time on that bit. But you picked the wrong license if you don't want people to copy you.

> Looks like a software bootcamp project

Bootcamps are treasure troves of stolen projects. I got into a rabbit hole on this a few weeks ago, and you'll find the same "project" done by several different people at several different bootcamps. There were even some that were verbatim the same despite proudly saying the project was independent.

Thanks for making it MIT! This is exactly what MIT means. Perhaps you should change the license.

Is this like a business or are you just really committed to the project? I see you all have it listed on your linkedin, and was wondering what the long term goals are for the project.

this is a 100% an open source product developed under tech accelerator OSLabs! :) we noticed svelte developers requesting a library like this, so we built it to try to fill that need. long-term, we hope to maintain the codebase, create features, fix bugs and respond to requests from the larger svelte dev community!

Nice!

Would be great if it could generate static images of a diagram in e.g. SVG.

Really cool. Love stuff like this and appreciate the time spent doing a nice documentation page. Congrats and hopefully a fun learning challenge for you all.

thank you :) our team worked really hard and it definitely pushed our abilities further! and I really enjoyed working with Svelte!

Are you planning to offer authoring of such flow diagrams as a capability? Users should be able to nost just reposition nodes, but add/modify/remove nodes and edges both and edit their metadata.

This would be super-useful because currently not many tools exist for non-tech users for creating graph datasets AND visually laying them out in a sensible way.

I thought that's what this was...

What's the purpose, then?

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