PlantUML Visualizer

🏭 A Chrome / Firefox extension for visualizing PlantUML descriptions.

Release Pages

• Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plantuml-visualizer/ffaloebcmkogfdkemcekamlmfkkmgkcf
• Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/plantuml-visualizer/

Visualizable Pages

GitHub

• File Viewer
  • https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/blob/master/puml-sample/class.pu
  • !include directive: https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/blob/master/puml-sample/including.pu
  • !includesub directive: https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/blob/master/puml-sample/subincluding.pu
• Issues: #54
• Pull Requests
  • Added: https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/pull/49/files
  • Deleted: https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/pull/50/files
  • Changed: https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/pull/24/files
  • !include directive: https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/pull/423/files
• Code blocks in README or something
  • README.md: https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/blob/master/puml-sample/README.md

GitLab

• Any page containing <pre> tag with prefix @startuml and suffix @enduml

(We will list GitLab pages with testing urls later)

.pu / .puml / .plantuml / .wsd files

• GitHub Raw Files (only Chrome)
  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/master/puml-sample/class.pu
  • !include directive: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/master/puml-sample/including.pu
  • !includesub directive: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/master/puml-sample/subincluding.pu
  • IMPORTANT NOTE: any extension on Firefox cannot work on GitHub Raw Files due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411641
• Local Files
  • file:///C:/Users/XXX/Projects/plantuml-visualizer/puml-sample/class.pu
  • !include directive for local files will NOT be supported because of security problems
  • Please use another software for rich rendering of local files (e.g. the official PlantUML renderer: https://plantuml.com/en/starting)
  • IMPORTANT NOTE: if you use Google Chrome, you need to allow this extension to access file URLs
    1. Open chrome://extensions/?id=ffaloebcmkogfdkemcekamlmfkkmgkcf in Chrome
    2. Enable "Allow access to file URLs"

Improve Default Allow/Deny Lists

The default lists are defined at https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/blob/main/src/constants.ts Please help us to improve the default lists for enabling/disabling visualization on specific web pages!

Visualization Examples

The visualization result of https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/pull/24/files is as follows.

Default Visualization Server

The default server is https://plantuml-service-willbooster.fly.dev (source code). You may check the PlantUML version via this link.

You may use another HTTPS PlantUML server by changing settings in the configuration window.

Requirements for Development

• Node.js
  • We define a recommended version on https://github.com/WillBooster/plantuml-visualizer/blob/main/.node-version
• Yarn v1

Development Preparation

1. yarn to install the latest dependencies
2. yarn build
3. Open Chrome browser
4. Open chrome://extensions
5. Enable Developer Mode
6. Click Load Unpacked and open dist directory (plantuml-visualizer/dist)
   • Load Unpacked is パッケージ化されていない拡張機能を読み込む in Japanese

Development

1. yarn to install the latest dependencies
2. yarn start
3. Open Chrome
4. Rewrite some code files
5. Close and Reopen Chrome browser (not only tabs)
   • or reload this extension in chrome://extensions and reload pages
6. Debug code
7. Go to step 4

Deployment for Chrome

1. Bump version in manifest.json and package.json
2. yarn package
3. Open https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/dashboard
4. Upload dist.zip

Deployment for Firefox

1. Bump version in manifest.json and package.json
2. yarn package
3. Open https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/plantuml-visualizer/edit
4. Upload dist.zip file