Selfhosted @lemmy.world chandz05 @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

Visio alternative

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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If you have used Draw.io (free) or lucidcharts (paid) you can host your own version as they are both versions of jgraph

https://github.com/jgraph/docker-drawio
- Draw io gets my vote
- You don't even need Docker for draw.io: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases
  
  true, but self hosted implies not a desktop app.
- Thanks I'll take a look!
- Ok I think we have a winner! Got draw.io up and running on my server, and so far it has everything I need, and the UI is perfect. Thank you for the suggestion!
I like LibreOffice Draw for this.
- 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
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.
- AFAIK, unfortunately Dia hasn't been maintained and hasn't got a new release for a really long time. It's still using GTK2.
- I guess it doesn't need to be self-hosted, but it would be nice. I'll check these out! Thanks for the suggestions!
  
  These are fully stand alone. Downloadable. So not strictly hosted I guess?
You should check out d2. It’s a code to diagram tool. You put some very simple coke and it draws your diagram. Quite quick and useful. Been using it for a while now.
cryptpad could be selfhosted and has a visio part too. You can test it here:

https://cryptpad.fr/diagram/
- Ok that's pretty cool. Thank you!
Wikijs supports mermaidjs doesn't it? It's a very powerful markup to diagram tool
- I came to suggest mermaidjs too.
- Typora also supports it, it's a great low-overhead tool overall.
The correct answer is : excalidraw
I personally like using dot(1) (https://linux.die.net/man/1/dot) but some people are into PlantUML.
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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