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24 alternatives to Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript
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. Since, I've built Cascii from scratch in vanilla Javascript (I'm not an FE dev, it might be obvious...). I hope it works alright. Please check out the live version at https://cascii.app, report problems, make diagrams to improve your code's documentation. Hope you enjoy using it.
Cascii is a portable ASCII diagram builder built in vanilla JavaScript that runs in the browser. It enables developers and technical writers to create ASCII diagrams for code documentation without relying on external… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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