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Plant UML

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PlantUML is an open source project that allows to create UML diagrams in a text-based and declarative way.

Since it is integrated in tools like Confluence, IntelliJ and GitLab we use it a lot to quickly document results of software design sessions.

Another similar tools that use just plain JavaScript to render the diagrams is mermaid

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PlantUML is an open source project that allows to create UML diagrams in a text-based and declarative way.

Since it is integrated in tools like Confluence, IntelliJ and GitLab we use it a lot to quickly document results of software design sessions.

Another similar tools that use just plain JavaScript to render the diagrams is mermaid