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# Actors
hans: Hans Niemann
defendants: {
mc: Magnus Carlsen
playmagnus: Play Magnus Group
chesscom: Chess.com
naka: Hikaru Nakamura
mc -> playmagnus: Owns majority
playmagnus <-> chesscom: Merger talks
chesscom -> naka: Sponsoring
}
# Accusations
hans -> defendants: 'sueing for $100M'
# Offense
defendants.naka -> hans: Accused of cheating on his stream
defendants.mc -> hans: Lost then withdrew with accusations
defendants.chesscom -> hans: 72 page report of cheating
There is syntax highlighting with the editor plugins linked below.
Rendered with the TALA layout engine.
For more examples, see ./docs/examples.
QuickstartThe most convenient way to use D2 is to just run it as a CLI executable to
produce SVGs from
.d2
files.
# First, install D2
curl -fsSL https://d2lang.com/install.sh | sh -s --
echo 'x -> y -> z' > in.d2
d2 --watch in.d2 out.svg
A browser window will open with
out.svg
and live-reload on changes to in.d2
.
InstallThe easiest way to install is with our install script:
curl -fsSL https://d2lang.com/install.sh | sh -s --
You can run the install script with
--dry-run
to see the commands that will be used
to install without executing them.
Or if you have Go installed you can install from source though you won't get the manpage:
go install oss.terrastruct.com/d2@latest
You can also install a release from source which will include manpages.
See ./docs/INSTALL.md#source-release.
To uninstall with the install script:
curl -fsSL https://d2lang.com/install.sh | sh -s -- --uninstall
For detailed installation docs, see ./docs/INSTALL.md.
We demonstrate alternative methods and examples for each OS.
As well, the functioning of the install script is described in detail to alleviate any
concern of its use. We recommend using your OS's package manager directly instead for
improved security but the install script is by no means insecure.
D2 as a libraryIn addition to being a runnable CLI tool, D2 can also be used to produce diagrams from
Go programs.
For examples, see ./docs/examples/lib.
ThemesD2 includes a variety of official themes to style your diagrams beautifully right out of
the box. See ./d2themes to browse the available themes and make or
contribute your own creation.
FontsD2 ships with "Source Sans Pro" as the font in renders. If you wish to use a different
one, please see ./d2renderers/d2fonts.
Export file typesD2 currently supports SVG and PNG exports. More coming soon.
Language toolingD2 is designed with language tooling in mind. D2's parser can parse multiple errors from a
broken program, has an autoformatter, syntax highlighting, and we have plans for LSP's and
more. Good language tooling is necessary for creating and maintaining large diagrams.
The extensions for VSCode and Vim can be found in the Related section.
PluginsD2 is designed to be extensible and composable. The plugin system allows you to
change out layout engines and customize the rendering pipeline. Plugins can either be
bundled with the build or separately installed as a standalone binary.
Layout engines:
D2 intends to integrate with a variety of layout engines, e.g.
dot, as well as single-purpose layout types like sequence diagrams. You can choose whichever layout engine you like and works best for the diagram you're making.
For a comparison against other popular text-to-diagram tools, see https://text-to-diagram.com.
Contributions are welcome! See ./docs/CONTRIBUTING.md.
Open sourced under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. See ./LICENSE.txt.
We are constantly working on new plugins, integrations, extensions. Contributions are welcome in any official or community plugins. If you have somewhere in your workflow that you want to use D2, feel free to open a discussion. We have limited bandwidth and usually choose the most high-demand ones to work on. If you make something cool with D2 yourself, let us know and we'll be happy to include it here!