[HN Gopher] GoJS 2.2: JavaScript and TypeScript Diagramming library
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GoJS 2.2: JavaScript and TypeScript Diagramming library
Author : simonsarris
Score : 78 points
Date : 2022-01-20 15:41 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (gojs.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (gojs.net)
| hajhatten wrote:
| Not to be confused with GopherJS, the Go->Javascript compiler
| https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs
| devy wrote:
| They have a non-standard source license. I doubt the legal would
| be excited engineering team to adopt some of these in the
| codebase.
|
| https://gojs.net/latest/license.html
| [deleted]
| imachine1980_ wrote:
| I think the problem is that you need to subscribe to know the
| pricing model, I don't try anything that don even show the
| pricing up-front and what difference licenses they offer, is
| like they want you to make into production before you notice
| that you have unlicensed software and pull the trigger if you
| dont pay. that's is really nasty business model.
| Veuxdo wrote:
| Looks like their pricing is here:
| https://nwoods.com/sales/index.html
| tekacs wrote:
| Which is behind the 'Buy' button in the top nav.
|
| Not sure what happened in the grandparent comment, but it's
| very much transparent and easy to find.
|
| It also has a neat calculator, so it's easy to figure out
| exact pricing for various scenarios, which is quite unlike
| so many closed libraries I've seen.
|
| Running in dev mode it also has a visible watermark on it,
| which says "GoJs evaluation (c) Northwoods Software. Not
| for distribution or production use nwoods.com", meaning
| there's almost zero chance that you wouldn't notice at dev
| time that you'd need to license this before putting it into
| production.
| simonsarris wrote:
| (I make GoJS)
|
| Although several companies do negotiate custom license
| agreements with us, it is not very common. Almost all the names
| here use the standard license:
| https://nwoods.com/sales/customers.html
| FnuGk wrote:
| despite the name, this confusingly have nothing to do with the go
| programming language
| Scarblac wrote:
| Well that's to be expected if you name your language Go. It's
| not exactly distinctive, is it?
| simonsarris wrote:
| We started with Go++ (C++) more than two decades ago, and went
| on to make Java, .NET, and JavaScript versions of the library.
| "Go" here stands for Graph Object, GraphObject being the base
| class for drawn objects.
| jerf wrote:
| Their github repo goes back to 1.4.0 or so around Apr 2014;
| their changelog goes back to 1.0.0. Go 1.0 was released March
| 2012. GopherJS' first commit is showing as Aug 2013. I'm not
| sure what GoJS' first release is but it seems likely to me it
| predated the Go project that really looks like "GoJS" and
| plausible that it predated Go 1.0 entirely.
|
| So it looks like just one of those things.
| jjtheblunt wrote:
| I also can't find proof, but I think Go the language was
| previously essentially Limbo the language at Bell Labs in the
| Plan9 OS world, and when the team moved to Google they
| updated Limbo naming it Go.
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| It seems (from simonsarris comments) that GoJS was created in
| the Limbo naming era, and is itself an acronym.
| ehutch79 wrote:
| Is this not a go library?
| JenniferRM wrote:
| Huh... The graph editing is coming from _inside_ the browser!
| https://gojs.net/latest/learn/interactivity.html
| klaussilveira wrote:
| This one has a better license: https://github.com/clientIO/joint
|
| And this one is nice too: https://github.com/bpmn-io/diagram-js
| rhacker wrote:
| It looks very easy to use. I might have to use this for
| something.
| montroser wrote:
| In a past life I spent many months deep in this library. There
| were some good things about it. Documentation is decent,
| performance was good, and their support was great.
|
| But still, it was a massive hindrance not to be able to dig into
| the library source when needed. I spent days grokking decompiled
| library code in order to get done what needed getting done.
|
| When it came time to grow the team, I couldn't in good conscience
| ask new hires to invest in learning all of this proprietary
| bespoke SVG-like-but-different ecosystem, knowing it would be
| frustrating and learnings would likely not be fundamentally
| applicable to other future endeavors.
| greymalik wrote:
| What did you use instead?
| yboris wrote:
| For those interested in seeing the _call graph_ within your
| TypeScript code, try _TypeScript Call Graph_
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| https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph
| yboris wrote:
| My favorite diagramming software is _yEd graph editor_. My
| favorite feature: automatic layout (decreasing overlapping lines,
| etc).
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| https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
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