benweet / js-sequence-diagrams

Draws simple SVG sequence diagrams from textual representation of the diagram

JS Sequence Diagrams

Generates UML sequence diagrams from simple text
http://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/

by Andrew Brampton 2012-2013

Example

We turn

Alice->Bob: Hello Bob, how are you?
Note right of Bob: Bob thinks
Bob-->Alice: I am good thanks!

into

Requirements

You will need underscore.js and Raphaël

Usage

On your page you need to include both underscore and raphael like so:

<script src="underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="raphael-min.js"></script>

and then

<div id="diagram">Diagram will be placed here</div>
<script src="sequence-diagram-min.js"></script>
<script>
  var diagram = Diagram.parse("A->B: Does something");
  diagram.drawSVG('diagram');
</script>

or use jQuery to do all the work:

<div class="diagram">A->B: Message</div>
<script>
$(".diagram").sequenceDiagram({theme: 'hand'});
</script>

Build requirements

# JavaScript Preprocessor
sudo gem install jspp

## Then to build, just run:
make

## The Makefile will use npm to install all the correct dev dependencies

How to release

• Make sure all changes checked in
• Bump version in src/copyright.js
• make clean
• make
• git add src/copyright.js build/sequence-diagram-min.js build/sequence-diagram-min.js.map
• git commit
• git push origin master
• git tag -a v1.x.x -m v1.x.x
• git push origin v1.x.x

TODO

• Other themes
• Rethink the use of Raphael. Due to its support of VML (which I don't care about), it makes many things harder. For example, font support, css styling, etc. Perhaps draw the SVG by hand, or find a small helper library

Contributors

via GitHub

Thanks

This project makes use of Jison, Raphaël, underscore.js, and the Daniel font (which is free to use for any purpose).

Many thanks to Web Sequence Diagrams which greatly inspired this project, and forms the basis for the syntax.

Related

• Web Sequence Diagrams Server side version with a commerical offering
• flowchart.js A similar project that draws flow charts in the browser

Licence (Simplified BSD License)

Copyright (c) 2012-2013, Andrew Brampton
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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