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Building a browser diagram editor: which import/export formats actually matter?

Diagram Now 2026年06月18日 23:15 2 次阅读 来源:Dev.to

Disclosure up front: I'm affiliated with diagram.now — I'm connected to the product. I'm posting this to get developer feedback on diagram import/export interoperability, not to pitch an install. Most teams I've worked with don't have one source of truth for their diagrams. They have: a few Mermaid blocks living in READMEs and Markdown docs, an old Visio ( .vsdx ) or Lucidchart file someone made two reorgs ago, a SQL schema that is secretly the "real" ERD, and a pile of screenshots pasted into docs and tickets. The diagram is rarely the hard part. The hard part is that the same diagram lives in five formats and none of them stay in sync with the docs they're supposed to explain. I've been working on diagram.now , a browser-based editor for technical diagrams — flowcharts, UML, ERD, BPMN, cloud/network architecture, mind maps, wireframes. It's a free browser editor with no signup to start. There's an optional Confluence app for teams that want diagrams editable inside Confluence pages, but that's intentionally not what I want to talk about here. I want feedback on the editor itself, and specifically on the interoperability story. What it does today Import/insert from Mermaid and SQL — paste a Mermaid graph or a CREATE TABLE block to start an editable diagram instead of a static render. Import Lucidchart and Visio .vsdx files — this is migration-oriented, and honestly the part I most want real-world files to stress-test. Export to PNG, SVG, PDF, or a URL. Templates/shapes for the diagram categories above. I'm deliberately keeping the Confluence side secondary. The thing I actually want to learn is whether the browser editor plus import/export is useful on its own. Where I'd love feedback Imports: Which format matters most to you — Mermaid, SQL→ERD, .vsdx , Lucidchart, or something else (PlantUML, draw.io XML, Graphviz)? If you've ever tried to migrate diagrams between tools, where did it break? URL export: Is a shareable diagram URL genuinely useful in your workflow (

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