20+ JavaScript libraries to draw your own diagrams (2022 edition)

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JointJS

Rappid is the commercial extension of JointJS. It’s a set of JointJS plugins and other components that gives more possibilities and ready to use features when creating a diagramming tool. Here are some of its features:

#Flowcharts #Org Charts #Mind Maps

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

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mxGraph

mxGraph uses no third-party software, it requires no plugins and can be integrated into virtually any framework. The mxGraph package contains a client software, written in JavaScript, and a series of backends for various languages. The client software is a graph component with an optional application wrapper that is integrated into an existing web interface. The client requires a web server to deliver the required files to the client or can be run from the local filesystem without a web server. The backends may be used as is, or they may be embedded into an existing server application in one of the supported languages.

#Flowcharts #Org Charts #Mind Maps 2 social mentions

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GoJS

GoJS offers many advanced features for user interactivity such as drag-and-drop, copy-and-paste, transactional state and undo management, palettes, overviews, data-bound models, event handlers, and an extensible tool system for custom operations. They provide over 150 interactive samples to help you get started with diagrams such as BPMN, flowchart, state chart, visual trees, Sankey, and data flow. The API is very well documented to make sure you can start using in no time. We covered extensively GoJS in this post.

#Flowcharts #Org Charts #BPMN 13 social mentions

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

Similar to nomnoml, Mermaid’s main focus is the generation of diagrams from text files, in this case via a simple markdown-like script language. It depends on d3 and dagre-d3 for providing the graphical layout and drawing libraries. It offers an online editor but you can also directly reuse the packaged Mermaid API to integrate Mermaid in your own developments. It mainly covers sequence diagrams and flowcharts.

#Diagrams #Flowcharts #Prototyping 7 social mentions

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

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D3.js

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. Right now, I would say is the most popular library of its kind.

#Javascript UI Libraries #Charting Libraries #Data Visualization 167 social mentions

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Raphael

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library. Raphaël uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. This means every graphical object you create is also a DOM object, so you can attach JavaScript event handlers or modify them later. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing vector art compatible cross-browser and easy. It hasn’t been recently updated.

#Javascript UI Libraries #Charting Libraries #Data Visualization 2 social mentions

Create Visio-like drawings, diagrams or a workflow editor with the Draw2D Javascript library. The User interface allows interactive drawing by using your standard browser. It claims to be much more concise than Raphael. There is even a demo page even though the development is stalled.

#Flowcharts #Org Charts #Mind Maps

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

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Paper.js

Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface. It’s based on (and largely compatible) with Scriptographer, a scripting environment for Adobe Illustrator.

#Flowcharts #Org Charts #Javascript UI Libraries 11 social mentions

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jsPlumb

jsPlumb provides a fast way of building applications with visual connectivity at their core. s. It uses SVG and runs on all browsers from IE9 and later. JsPlumbToolkit is its commercial extension. This commercial version wraps the Community edition with a focus on the underlying data model, as well as several useful UI features such as layouts, and a widget that offers pan/zoom functionality.

#Org Charts #Mind Maps #Path Tracing 5 social mentions

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p5.js

A JS client-side library for creating graphics and interactive experiences, based on the core principles of Processing to make coding accessible to artists, designers and educators. Beyond drawing, this project provides offers web audio functionality, collision detection and even generation of graphical user interfaces from p5.js sketches.

#Javascript UI Libraries #Charting Libraries #Flowcharts 146 social mentions

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

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Vis.js

Vis.js is a dynamic, browser-based visualization library. The library is designed to be easy to use, handle large amounts of dynamic data, and enable manipulation of the data. This project is also abandoned.

#Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 12 social mentions

React Diagrams is a “a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works”. It’s a library focusing on visualizing flows and process-orientated diagrams. Inspired by Blender, Labview and Unreal engine.

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tldraw

Tldraw is one of the most recent entries to this list. Tldraw is a “tiny little drawing app” offering a number of shapes to draw simple, but clear and elegant, diagrams with a hand-drawn style and convenient features such as smart arrows, snapping, and sticky notes. There’s even a VSCode extension for it.

#Digital Whiteboard #Productivity #Work Collaboration 2 social mentions