49 points

Yes, I know, draw.io theoretically isn’t entirely open source, but the source code is available and it can be self-hosted. Honestly, that’s good enough for me, I think I can make an exception for this one. But generally I care a lot about strictly using FOSS too. It can also be integrated with Nextcloud: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/drawio

permalink
report
reply
7 points

There’s also a draw.io (diagrams.net) plugin for intellij and probably eclipse.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Vscode too

permalink
report
parent
reply
24 points

https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw

Excalidraw is great, but can be a pain to set up locally if you require the collaboration features.

permalink
report
reply
6 points

Have you done it? I’m interested in this. Any tips and tricks? Maybe you kept some notes?

Thanks!

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

I didn’t myself, but talked to a colleague recently who set it up for our company. Apparently it was quite tricky to get the various containers set up just right, as they need to communicate with each other but also be user facing and have proper certs and so on. I don’t have any details, but usually this guy is very good at deploying stuff, so if he admits to struggling I know it must be seriously hard.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

Do you think he would he share his deployment code? I was thinking of deploying excalidraw on my homeserver :p.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Thanks! Now I’m intrigued. I’ll try to set it up this weekend.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

There’s also an Obsidian plugin that gives you a local setup without the extra config for sharing

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points
4 points

I’ve used Dia for years, great simple tool for diagramming & if I need something more I’ll switch to graphviz dot files

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

Inkscape works well for this.

permalink
report
reply
1 point

Does inkscape have diagram connecting? One of the best draw.io features is the wide array of premade shapes, styles, and auto connecting for flow visualization

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

Maybe mermaid fits your use case?

https://mermaid.js.org/

permalink
report
reply
5 points

There’s kroki as well, which includes Mermaid, Excalidraw, GraphViz, PlantUML, etc.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points
*

See also Inkscape.

Doesn’t quite fit OPs want of self hosted, but still very good.

There is also Asymptote and tikz for more technical stuff.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Selfhosted

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

Create post

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we’re here to support and learn from one another. Insults won’t be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don’t duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

Community stats

  • 4.8K

    Monthly active users

  • 3.5K

    Posts

  • 75K

    Comments