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
https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
Excalidraw is great, but can be a pain to set up locally if you require the collaboration features.
There’s also an Obsidian plugin that gives you a local setup without the extra config for sharing
Have you done it? I’m interested in this. Any tips and tricks? Maybe you kept some notes?
Thanks!
I didn’t myself, but talked to a colleague recently who set it up for our company. Apparently it was quite tricky to get the various containers set up just right, as they need to communicate with each other but also be user facing and have proper certs and so on. I don’t have any details, but usually this guy is very good at deploying stuff, so if he admits to struggling I know it must be seriously hard.
Thanks! Now I’m intrigued. I’ll try to set it up this weekend.
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.
Maybe mermaid fits your use case?
There’s kroki as well, which includes Mermaid, Excalidraw, GraphViz, PlantUML, etc.
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.