awesome diagramming tools @GitHub

 GitHub - shubhamgrg04/awesome-diagramming: A curated collection of diagramming tools used by leading software engineering teams

A curated list of awesome diagramming tools available for software engineering teams. 

General Purpose (flexible for all kinds of diagrams)

• Kroki (Free, Open Source, Diagram as code, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Flexible). Examples - Link

• Mermaid (Free, Open Source, Diagram as code, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Modern). Examples - Link

• Excalidraw (Freemium, Open Source, Hand drawn, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Hand-drawn). Examples - Link

• PlantUML (Free, Open Source, Diagram as code, Ease of use - Intermediete, Visual Appearance - Outdated) Examples - Link, Link

• Draw.io (Free, Open Source (But Closed To Contribution), Hand drawn, Ease of use - Moderate, Visual Appearance - Modern). Examples - Link

• Nomnoml (Free, Open Source, Diagram as code. Ease of use - Easy, Visual Apperance - Minimalistic). Examples - Link

• Diagram.codes (Freemium, Closed Source, Diagram as code, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Outdated). Examples - Link

• Lucidchart (Paid, Closed Source, Hand drawn, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Modern). Examples - Link

• Blockdiag (Free, Open Source, Diagram as code, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Outdated). Exampes - Link

Others - Miro, Gliffy, Inkscape, Plectica, Whimsical, ZenUML, Gleek, Structurizr, StarUML

Sequence diagram

• Swimlanes (Free, Closed Source, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Modern)
  Examples - Link

Others - Websequencediagrams, Sequencediagram.org

System design diagram

Essential readings
C4 Model, 5 types of architecture diagrams

• Diagrams (Free, Open Source, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Modern).
  Examples - Link

• Terrastruct (Paid, Closed Source, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Modern)
  Examples - Link

• IcePanel (Paid, Closed Source, Hand drawn, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Modern) Examples - Link

• Lucidscale (Paid, Closed Source, Ease of use - Intermediete, Visual Appearance - Modern).
  Examples - Link

Others - Ilograph, Omnigraffle, Cloudcraft, CloudSkew

ER diagram

Essential Readings
How to choose your ERD?

• DbDiagram (Freemium, Closed Source, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Modern)
  Examples - Link

• Azimutt (Free, Open Source, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Modern).
  Examples - Link

  Azimutt is useful when you want to visualize existing database

• QuickDBD (Free, Closed Source, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Modern).
  Examples - Link

Others - DrawSql, ERD Plus, Creately, SqlDBM

Gantt Chart

• Markwhen (Free, Open Source, Ease of use - Easy, Visual Appearance - Minimalist)
  Examples - Link

Other good curated collections of diagramming tools

• https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#diagramming
• https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/