Discourse svgbob

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:discourse2: Summary Discourse svgbob allows you to include ASCII diagrams in your Discourse posts that are rendered as SVGs
:hammer_and_wrench: Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-svgbob
:open_book: New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes

Install this theme component

For example:

```svgbob height=54
+--------+      +------------+
| A Box  |----->|Another box |
+--------+      +------------+
```

Will render as a high fidelity SVG in your post.

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The component re-packages the open source Svgbob library, an online playground for svgbob is at: Svgbob editor

Minimal requirements: The component leans on very recent changes to Discourse core and will require Discourse 2.9.0.beta4 or a current default install.

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Does it have any advantages over yUML?

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Being a #theme-component instead of a #plugin means it can be installed easily, even on shared hosting, and there is no need for rebuilds.

yuml also draws, well, UML diagrams, while svgbob is a free form drawing tool.

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