Hello self-hosters! Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a self-hosted Microsoft Visio alternative, or something at least very similar. I’m basically looking to create infrastructure diagrams for my self hosted server and apps. I already have WikiJS as a wik/documentation solution, but don’t mind migrating to something else if there are better solutions and/or integrations for diagrams

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If you have used Draw.io (free) or lucidcharts (paid) you can host your own version as they are both versions of jgraph

https://github.com/jgraph/docker-drawio

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Thanks I’ll take a look!

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Draw io gets my vote

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true, but self hosted implies not a desktop app.

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No it does not.

Self-hosted implies self-hosted. AFAIK, the end goal is being as autonomous as possible technologically-speaking. Why exclude desktop applications ?

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Ok I think we have a winner! Got draw.io up and running on my server, and so far it has everything I need, and the UI is perfect. Thank you for the suggestion!

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Does it need to be “hosted”?

I like both these:

yEd (https://www.yworks.com/products/yed)

Dia Diagrams (http://dia-installer.de)

I think yEd had a free version but closed source.

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I guess it doesn’t need to be self-hosted, but it would be nice. I’ll check these out! Thanks for the suggestions!

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These are fully stand alone. Downloadable. So not strictly hosted I guess?

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AFAIK, unfortunately Dia hasn’t been maintained and hasn’t got a new release for a really long time. It’s still using GTK2.

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I like LibreOffice Draw for this.

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Hmm I already have an OnlyOffice server linked to my Nextcloud, but OnlyOffice doesn’t have an equivalent application. Maybe I’ll look into changing the stack to LibreOffice

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Wikijs supports mermaidjs doesn’t it? It’s a very powerful markup to diagram tool

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Typora also supports it, it’s a great low-overhead tool overall.

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I came to suggest mermaidjs too.

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The correct answer is : excalidraw

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