Welcome to Graphin Discussions!

[pomelo-nwu]

👋 Welcome!

We’re using Discussions as a place to connect with other members of our community. We hope that you:

• Ask questions you’re wondering about.
• Share ideas.
• Engage with other community members.
• Welcome others and are open-minded. Remember that this is a community we
  build together 💪.

To get started, comment below with an introduction of yourself and tell us about what you do with this community.

[cliffordfajardo]

Hi Graphin Community 👋
I've been using the library for about 2 weeks & I've been enjoying it a lot!

Before Graphin, my team was using Cisco's old NextUI library to render network topologies & help us our infrastructure. NextUI unfortunately is no longer maintained, the codebase is 2015 style code and it was hard to develop & maintain.

Fortunately after about a month of researching I stumbled upon Graphin

What I like about Graphin

• options for rendering to canvas or svg. It can handle thousands of nodes easily
• can use JSX elements (or custom DOM) to render tooltips for canvas elements!
• codebase is in typescript & is modern
• has plugins & features like: combo's feature, timebar,
• API to create custom layouts and behavior

I'm still new to Graphin, but I hope to contribute back and help build the Graphin community & its usage in the United States.

Big shout out to @pomelo-nwu , @zxc0328, @baizn, @timlrx , @CodesAreHonest @Blakko and the rest of the Graphin maintainer & contributors on this great library

Tips for Contributing to the community 👥

When reporting a bug or issue, it alway's helps if you can be detailed yet concise in your description's & have a reproducible code example. Also, please imagine yourself in the place of an open source maintainer when asking for help or contributing

• open source maintainer's contribute out of the goodness of their heart 💙 in their free time after their typical work & it's unpaid!
• open source is hard
  • Video The Hard Parts of Open Source by Evan Czaplicki,
  • Article: Open Source is hard by Jose Gonzalez
  • Video: Why you should contribute to open source by Marit van Dijk

For reproducible code examples, I recommend stackblitz (which is VSCode in the browser):

• it allows you to create a fast sample of your code
• allows you to drag files from your computer to the stackblitz editor running in your web browser
• This is an example of Graphin code sample created on Stackblitz
  • Code: stackblitz.com/edit/react-ts-ma2vpb
  • Demo: react-ts-ma2vpb.stackblitz.io

Let's have fun & let's us continue making this an amazing & welcoming community 🎉