Hello self-hosters! Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a self-hosted Microsoft Visio alternative, or something at least very similar. I’m basically looking to create infrastructure diagrams for my self hosted server and apps. I already have WikiJS as a wik/documentation solution, but don’t mind migrating to something else if there are better solutions and/or integrations for diagrams

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The correct answer is : excalidraw

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ChatGPT to spit out mermaid that gets rendered in many markdown renderers these days. As its code you can git version it too!

Or there is C4 diagrams from code using structurizr…

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Does it need to be “hosted”?

I like both these:

yEd (https://www.yworks.com/products/yed)

Dia Diagrams (http://dia-installer.de)

I think yEd had a free version but closed source.

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I guess it doesn’t need to be self-hosted, but it would be nice. I’ll check these out! Thanks for the suggestions!

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These are fully stand alone. Downloadable. So not strictly hosted I guess?

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AFAIK, unfortunately Dia hasn’t been maintained and hasn’t got a new release for a really long time. It’s still using GTK2.

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I like LibreOffice Draw for this.

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Hmm I already have an OnlyOffice server linked to my Nextcloud, but OnlyOffice doesn’t have an equivalent application. Maybe I’ll look into changing the stack to LibreOffice

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Wikijs supports mermaidjs doesn’t it? It’s a very powerful markup to diagram tool

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I came to suggest mermaidjs too.

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Typora also supports it, it’s a great low-overhead tool overall.

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