3 months ago I wanted to draw an ASCII diagram to include in some documentation at work. I found the few tools online to be insufficient, and was suprised there wasn't a more complete tool to get the job done.<p>Since, I've built Cascii from scratch in vanilla Javascript (I'm not an FE dev, it might be obvious...).<p>I hope it works alright. Please check out the live version at <a href="https://cascii.app" rel="nofollow">https://cascii.app</a>, report problems, make diagrams to improve your code's documentation. Hope you enjoy using it.
This is fantastic. I've always used JavE before but this being a single HTML file is a big+ and packs quite a punch. Kudos to the author!<p>One question though, how do edit the content later? For example I generated a few diagrams one at a time and pasted those in a local plain text file. Later when I want to edit a particular diagram/part, I tried copy pasted it in, but always got "cannot paste, content leaves canvas" error. If I tried copy-pasting a really small section (e.g. 3x3 table), it pasted it right in the center. Anyway, not sure if that's an intended work flow or not. Great job regardless.
Looks super cool, congrats!<p>Monodraw[1] is a similar product delivered as a standalone macOS app. It’s a classic pay once-type license and very polished software. Cannot recommend enough! I’ve always wanted something as good on Linux though, will definitely give this a go!<p>[1] <a href="https://monodraw.helftone.com/" rel="nofollow">https://monodraw.helftone.com/</a>
I love this so much. Thanks for using vanilla JS!<p>Please consider changing the link colors in the scrolling intro to yellow when in dark mode. They were really hard to make out.
Very cool, thanks.<p>One of the saddest days at my current job: when the company I’m contracted to stopped offering Excalidraw in favor of Lucid. I mostly understand the rationale, but the dramatic difference in friction basically shut down all interest I had in using diagrams to help communicate with my team members.
This looks amazing! Thank you for making and sharing it. Being able to run it locally is fantastic for work, where one may not be allowed to share "internal details" with unvetted 3rd party companies.
Wow. This is absolutely fantastic! Great work! Congrats!<p>Do you know if there would be a way (in the future) to export existing image diagrams to this format / will there be an API. It would be very cool for archival purposes.
This looks awesome. The way you are dragging things around and the diagonal lines is amazing. Don't think asciiflow or the other one or two tools do this.<p>Since you are providing a single portable html file (which almost no one does that these days sadly) you may be interested in how sequencediagrams.org handles this. They don't offer sign up, instead have localStorage, Google drive, file export and few other ways.<p>Also, can you let me open it on the phone with a warning/recommendation to look at github instead of redirecting to it.
That looks almost exactly like something I've wanted, thought numerous times about making, but never getting around to. Thanks for scratching your itch and mine!
Any chance you can write a blogpost about development of cascii? It looks impressive and it would be nice to take a sneak peek behind your thought process.
Nice job. Thanks! Also very interesting to have it "distributed" in one html file. Sometimes people forget simple ways to do stuff :)<p>Is is possible to import and edit diagrams after they have been created?
This is amazing, thank you for sharing it. Aside from being a very useful documentation tool, I hope it inspires more people to distribute simple standalone software utilities in this way.