cidrblock/drawthe.net

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1182 stars · 133 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

drawthe.net is a tool that renders network diagrams as SVG in the browser from a YAML text file describing icons, groups, connections, and layout. It replaces manual mouse-driven diagramming tools like Visio with a text-based, code-driven workflow.

Use cases

• draw network diagrams from a yaml file
• generate aws architecture diagrams as code
• create cisco network topology diagrams without a mouse
• render svg network diagrams in the browser
• version-control network diagrams as text
• quickly sketch infrastructure diagrams on a whiteboard-like tool

When to choose

• you want reproducible, text-based network diagrams that live in version control
• you need AWS, Cisco, or Azure icon sets for cloud architecture diagrams
• you prefer describing layout in YAML over dragging icons in Visio or OmniGraffle

When to avoid

• you need general-purpose diagramming beyond network topologies
• you require polished export to formats beyond SVG/PNG
• you want auto-layout from live network discovery rather than manual placement

Facets

application · maturity active

data-visualization templating developer-tools networking developer-tools web-development browser network-diagrams yaml-to-svg diagram-as-code aws-icons cisco-icons azure-icons svg-rendering diagrams web-server javascript

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