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		fsiefken on June 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Create diagrams with code using Graphviz there must be away to run it in a headless browser en screencapture and parse the output as png

AlexITC on June 10, 2020 | [–]

Actually, it's pretty simple, just include https://github.com/markushedvall/plantuml-encoder and call

    "https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/img/" + encode(text);

That's what I did on collabuml.

cachehit on June 10, 2020 | [–]

Surely there is. It just seems overly complicated to me.

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