Fa-diagrams NPM

fa-diagrams

SVG diagrams built from Font-Awesome icons

sample

Web Editor

Summary

Usage

Node module

const faDiagrams = require('fa-diagrams');

// data: example1
const data = {
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "node1",
      "icon": "laptop-code",
      "color": "#4E342E",
      "bottom": "my app"
    },
    {
      "name": "node2",
      "icon": "globe",
      "color": "#455A64",
      "bottom": "world"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "from": "node1",
      "to": "node2",
      "color": "#333333",
      "top": {
        "icon": "envelope"
      },
      "bottom": "\"hello\""
    }
  ]
}

const svg = faDiagrams.compute(data); // string containing xml data

//export as SVG with fs
const fs = require('fs');
fs.writeFileSync('diagram.svg', svg, {encoding:'utf-8'});

//export as PNG with svg2img (npm i svg2img)
const svg2img = require('svg2img');
svg2img(svg, function(error, buffer) {
    fs.writeFileSync('diagram.png', buffer);
});

Will produce the diagram above

Html script

<head>
    ...
    <script src="fa-diagrams-data.min.js"></script>
    <script src="fa-diagrams.min.js"></script>
    ...
</head>
<body>
...
<script>
    ...
    const svg = faDiagrams.compute(data); // string containing xml data
    ...
</script>
...
</body>
</html>

Install

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Static scripts

Get the scripts from this repository dist folder

<script src="fa-diagrams-data.min.js"></script> <!-- 1.04 MB -->
<script src="fa-diagrams.min.js"></script> <!-- 110.40 KB -->

CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fa-diagrams@latest/dist/fa-diagrams-data.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fa-diagrams@latest/dist/fa-diagrams.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://unpkg.com/fa-diagrams/dist/fa-diagrams-data.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/fa-diagrams/dist/fa-diagrams.min.js"></script>

NPM

npm install fa-diagrams

Build from sources

You will need subversion installed (used for precise folder fetching in GitHub)

git clone https://github.com/klemek/fa-diagrams.git
cd fa-diagrams
npm install
node build.sh

API

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You must pass as argument an object containing 3 keys:

`options`

Key (`.subkey`)	Default value	Info	Redefined
`placing.max-link-length`	3	maximum stretching of links between nodes	no
`placing.diagonals`	`true`	allow diagonal links to be made	no
`rendering.beautify`	`false`	output a readable SVG file	no
`rendering.scale`	256	(in pixels) final icons size	no
`rendering.color`	`black`	color of all elements	no
`rendering.h-spacing`	1.3	how width is stretched comparing to height	no
`rendering.icons.scale`	1	default scaling of icons	in node
`rendering.icons.color`	`''`	color of all icons	in node
`rendering.sub-icons.scale`	0.4	default scaling of sub-icons	in sub-icon
`rendering.sub-icons.color`	`''`	color of all sub-icons	in sub-icon
`rendering.sub-icons.margin`	0.3	margin between sub-icons and elements	in sub-icon
`rendering.links.scale`	1	default scaling of links	in link
`rendering.links.color`	`''`	color of all links (might be redefined in link definition)	in link
`rendering.links.size`	0	forced size/length of the links (0 means it will be computed from the distance between the nodes)	in link
`rendering.texts.font`	`'Arial'`	font family of the texts (might be redefined in sub-elements definition)	in text
`rendering.texts.font-size`	15	font size of the texts	in sub-text
`rendering.texts.font-style`	`'normal'`	font style of the texts (see Font styles)	in sub-text
`rendering.texts.color`	`''`	color of all texts	in sub-text
`rendering.texts.margin`	0.2	margin between texts and elements	in sub-text
`rendering.texts.line-height`	1.2	height of each line in font size	in sub-text

`nodes`

Array of object as following:

Key	Type	Required	Info
`name`	string	yes	used in links to reference nodes
`icon`	string/object	yes	name of the Font-Awesome icon of the node (see Icon names)
`top`, `bottom`, `left`, `right`	string or object	no	see Sub-elements
`color`	string	no	redefined the color
`scale`	number	no	redefine this node icon scale
`x`, `y`	number	no	force the position of this node

`links`

Array of object as following:

Key	Type	Required	Info
`from`	string	yes	source node name
`to`	string	yes	destination node name
`type`	string	no	link's appearance (see Link types)
`top`, `bottom` or `left`, `right`	string or object	no	left and right are relative of the link's direction, top and bottom relative of the link's angle, see Sub-elements
`color`	string	no	redefine the color
`scale`	number	no	redefine this link scale
`size`	number	no	forced size/length of the link

Sub-elements

Elements meant to be drawn along-side a node/link.
There are two types: text and icons

Texts

You can just enter a string to be considered a text but you can define a text with more options as following:

Key	Type	Required	Info
`text`	string	yes	value of your text
`color`	string	no	redefine the color
`font`	string	no	redefine the font family
`font-size`	number	no	redefine the font size
`font-style`	string	no	redefine the font style (see Font styles)
`margin`	number	no	redefine the margin with the parent element
`line-height`	number	no	height of each line in font size

Icons

You can define a relative icon with the following:

Key	Type	Required	Info
`icon`	string/object	yes	name of the Font-Awesome icon of the sub-element (see Icon names)
`color`	string	no	redefine the color
`scale`	number	no	redefine this sub-icon scale
`margin`	number	no	redefine the margin with the parent element

More info

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Icon names

Icons are fetched from Font-Awesome free icons.
When you reference an icon, for example circle, it's searched in the solid folder then regular then brands. If, in this case you want the hollow circle from the regular style, just enter regular circle or circle regular instead. It's very flexible as you can copy-paste from an HTML page far fa-circle and it will also works.

You can also specify a custom icon by entering the following object instead of a string:

Key	Type	Required	Info
`path`	string	yes	the SVG path of your icon
`width`	string	no	the custom width of the path (if blank, height is taken, then the height of all icons: 512)
`height`	string	no	the custom height of the path (if blank, width is taken)

Link types

Here are the accepted types and their preview :

npm.io

You can use none to make an invisible link.

Font styles

First, you should use web-safe fonts to be sure your SVG will be rendered correctly

Here are the available styles :

normal
bold
italic
oblique
underlined
overlined
~~striked~~

The style can also be a compound like bold italic.

Thrown errors

Errors can be thrown in these 2 cases :

Nodes could not be placed based on the constraints:
- Failed to place nodes
A node or a link have an invalid property
- Node 'name' is invalid at key ...

Change icons

If you want to change the icons you can edit/build your own resources.json as following:

{
    "name";: "squares",
    "height";: 60, //height of all icons
    "index";: [ // which categories are there and in which order it should be searched
        "solid",
        "hollow"
    ],
    "icons";: {
      "solid";: {
        "square";:{
          "path";:"M10 10v-40h40v40z",
          "width";:60
        }
      },
      "hollow";: {
        "square";:{
          "path";:"M10 10v-40h40v40h-40m10 10v-20h20v20h-20z",
          "width";:60
        }
      }
    }
}

Examples

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Example 1 : Hello World

npm.io

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "node1",
      "icon": "laptop-code",
      "color": "#4E342E",
      "bottom": "my app"
    },
    {
      "name": "node2",
      "icon": "globe",
      "color": "#455A64",
      "bottom": "world"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "from": "node1",
      "to": "node2",
      "color": "#333333",
      "top": {
        "icon": "envelope"
      },
      "bottom": "\"hello\""
    }
  ]
}

nodes:
  - name: node1
    icon: laptop-code
    color: '#4E342E'
    bottom: my app
  - name: node2
    icon: globe
    color: '#455A64'
    bottom: world
links:
  - from: node1
    to: node2
    color: '#333333'
    top:
      icon: envelope
    bottom: '"hello"'

Example 2 : Web App

npm.io

{
  "options": {
    "placing": {
      "diagonals": false
    },
    "rendering": {
      "icons": {
        "color": "#00695C"
      },
      "links": {
        "color": "#26A69A"
      },
      "texts": {
        "color": "#004D40",
        "font": "mono",
        "font-size": 12,
        "margin": 0.25
      },
      "sub-icons": {
        "color": "#004D40"
      }
    }
  },
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "client",
      "icon": "laptop",
      "bottom": "user"
    },
    {
      "name": "page",
      "icon": "file-code",
      "top": "index.html"
    },
    {
      "name": "js",
      "icon": "js-square",
      "bottom": "front-end"
    },
    {
      "name": "server",
      "icon": "node",
      "bottom": "back-end"
    },
    {
      "name": "db",
      "icon": "database"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "from": "client",
      "to": "page"
    },
    {
      "from": "page",
      "to": "js",
      "type": "double",
      "top": {
        "icon": "vuejs"
      },
      "bottom": "VueJS",
      "direction": "down"
    },
    {
      "from": "js",
      "to": "server",
      "type": "split-double",
      "direction": "right",
      "top": {
        "text": "Ajax"
      },
      "bottom": {
        "text": "JSON"
      }
    },
    {
      "from": "db",
      "to": "server",
      "type": "double",
      "bottom": "Sequelize"
    }
  ]
}

options:
  placing:
    diagonals: false
  rendering:
    icons:
      color: '#00695C'
    links:
      color: '#26A69A'
    texts:
      color: '#004D40'
      font: mono
      font-size: 12
      margin: 0.25
    sub-icons:
      color: '#004D40'
nodes:
  - name: client
    icon: laptop
    bottom: user
  - name: page
    icon: file-code
    top: index.html
  - name: js
    icon: js-square
    bottom: front-end
  - name: server
    icon: node
    bottom: back-end
  - name: db
    icon: database
links:
  - from: client
    to: page
  - from: page
    to: js
    type: double
    top:
      icon: vuejs
    bottom: VueJS
    direction: down
  - from: js
    to: server
    type: split-double
    direction: right
    top:
      text: Ajax
    bottom:
      text: JSON
  - from: db
    to: server
    type: double
    bottom: Sequelize

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