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
There’s also a draw.io (diagrams.net) plugin for intellij and probably eclipse.
Vscode too
I’ve used Dia for years, great simple tool for diagramming & if I need something more I’ll switch to graphviz dot files
Inkscape works well for this.
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
Maybe mermaid fits your use case?
There’s kroki as well, which includes Mermaid, Excalidraw, GraphViz, PlantUML, etc.
You are aware that draw.io is itself open source and self-hostable: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio ?
“This project is not an open source project as a result.”
https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/blame/dev/LICENSE <-- that’s … a rather specific and recent change. Is there a story here ?
They added:
- None of the Work may be used in any form as part, or whole, of an integration, plugin or app that integrates with Atlassian’s Confluence or Jira products.
Amazing. I get there’s some atlassian bullshittery behind that.
Looks like their paid confluence extension was called a scam in a review and they really did not like that 😂 https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/discussions/4623
Weird because gliffy (or whatever it’s called) exists on confluence
Draw.io has a Docker container
I used to use one years ago called yEd graph editor. Supremely amazing. It is free to use, but I don’t think it’s open source.
Yed is pretty good. It’s what I use.
Unless I misunderstand your question, draw.io can be downloaded as a standalone Linux application and run locally.
Likewise, the Xfig package should he available in most Linux repos. It’s old, but good enough for a quick sketch.
edit: aha. My mistake. My eyes slid over ‘open source’ in the title*, and even still I hadn’t realized it was an Apache license.
* Whaaat, it was pre-coffee? Let the purest among us cast the first stone.
They’re looking for something open-source. Draw.io’s readme says:
License
The source code authored by us in this repo is licensed under a modified Apache v2 license. This project is not an open source project as a result.
I haven’t been through the license to see what its restrictions are, but there must be a reason they give this warning.
Of the changes made last week to the license, this one stands out:
- None of the Work may be used in any form as part, or whole, of an integration, plugin or app that integrates with Atlassian’s Confluence or Jira products.
That is a weird carve-out, so I’d guess the license revision (and technically the reason it’s no longer open source) somehow has to do with Atlassian or their plugin marketplace?
From another comment on this thread: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/discussions/4623
I guess that’s how they make a lot of money, selling their own Confluence plugin.
draw .io is closed source.
Source available*
D2lang is good
What kind of diagram are you going to make?
By no means the best option, but the tikz latex package works and pandoc can handle the conversion to your preferred format. I would limit this to very simple diagrams.
