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Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
32•jpwalsh234•2h ago
I love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermaid or Graphviz (which don't let me decide how the diagram looks), or (B) software like Draw.io which are powerful but are very time consuming (and inefficient for agents to manipulate).

I wanted to have the benefits of both, where you can define a diagram in a diagram language, but also retain a high degree of control over what the diagram looks like.

I also wanted this to work well for humans and agents.

On the Github link, there's a playground where you can try it out without installation. There's also instructions for a simple npm install and for installing a skill you can use with Claude or other agents.

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v9v•48m ago
Great! Reminds me of Pikchr a bit https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md
tetris11•36m ago
I like it. I have too many issues with Mermaid
jpwalsh234•26m ago
Thanks! I really like Mermaid, but if the diagram gets too complicated, it draws it how it wants and I end up reaching for Draw.io, which is also awesome, but can take a lot of time.
monster_truck•35m ago
This genuinely fucks. Thank you

Fighting with mermaid is so frustraiting, especially when it comes to normal vs github formatting. This is going to replace several ad-hoc half impls I have laying around

jpwalsh234•21m ago
Glad to hear it :) If you find that you want Reladraw to do something that it can't, let me know! I keep uncovering features by looking at actual Draw.io diagrams I've made and seeing if Reladraw can do it.
lastscattering•31m ago
This is basically tikz's positioning library (right=of, below left=of) without having to touch LaTeX. With tikz it was never the nodes that hurt me, it was the edges. Once two edges want the same side of a box it gets ugly fast. Does the resolver do any routing, or is from:/to: all you get? And what happens with conflicting statements, does the first one win or do you get an error?
patriciobcs•7m ago
I was looking for something like this. I wish it had different themes, the will prob be the best improvement.

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