Graphviz
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tools, diagram, architecture
Written in 2020. Tools, APIs and prices may have changed since.
Lab note What I wrote down while learning this by building with it. Short by design; the code is in pfeilbr/graphviz-playground.
learn Graphviz - Graph Visualization Software
Developing
# vscode "Graphviz Interactive Preview" extension was not working with images
# use the following to create .png image on .dot file change
# open vscode in split view with .dot in one and .png in the other.
# .png view will refresh when the file is updated.
fswatch -o example01.dot | xargs -n1 -I{} dot -Tpng example01.dot -oexample01.png
Screenshots
vscode example with “Graphviz Interactive Preview”
