kxxoling/gitbook-plugin-plantuml

Gitbook PlantUml plugin is used to select from markdown uml and converting it into a picture format svg.

GitBook PlantUml Plugin

This is a sample plugin for GitBook and is specially adapted for GitBook from PlantUML. Gitbook PlantUml plugin is used to select from markdown uml and converting it into a picture format svg.

Example:

Text format uml:

```uml
@startuml

	Class Stage
	Class Timeout {
		+constructor:function(cfg)
		+timeout:function(ctx)
		+overdue:function(ctx)
		+stage: Stage
	}
 	Stage <|-- Timeout

@enduml
```

Image uml.

How to use it:

Gitbook PlantUml plugin can be installed from NPM using:

$ npm install gitbook-plugin-plantuml

Configure plugin in book.json.

{
    "plugins": ["plantuml"]
}

This plugin only works in your local machine. You need to play with local gitbook (command-line tool) to pre-compile all uml images.

$ gitbook serve yourbook

or

$ gitbook build yourbook

Additional requirements:

• Create a directory /assets/images/uml in the root of your project.
• Install PlantUML. (Download plantuml.jar to root path)

For Mac OS X users. Install graphviz package.

$ brew install graphviz