rahul2224/sequence-diagram-generator

Generate a sequence diagram from a diagram DSL file and output it as a png image with a given name.

Sequence Diagram Generator

This project can be used to generate sequence diagrams from the command line after defining the diagram with a simple DSL. It's a node wrapper around js-sequence-diagrams, check this page for DSL syntax http://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/

Requirements

node.js, npm, puppeteer, handlebars.js

Setting up project

Clone project from git repository

git clone https://github.com/schrepfler/sequence-diagram-generator.git

Fetch dependencies

#install dependencies
npm install
#install web dependencies via bower
npm run setup

Generating sequence diagrams

Edit the sequence-diagrams.txt (or make your own) file according to the diagram syntax and after running the following command you will find a png with your image.

./generate-sequence-diagram.js -f sequence-diagram.txt -o sequence-diagram.png

TODO

• Add an API eg.

var generator = require('generate-sequence-diagrams');
generator.generate('my dsl text', function (data) { // data is the output image });

• npm-ise and publish
• Add proper image caption above and below the image with stylesheet
• Tests
  • On body
  • On image