Avi Flax

Survive the death of Structurizr Express

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As announced in #268. This is a goal + plan ticket. ## The Plan * [ ] Add background/context/introduction to this ticket. * [ ] Design and implement a new...

Local, offline, in-process rendering

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i.e. not using Structurizr Express, nor Structurizr, nor any other service/app accessed via a network. Ideally, fully in-process in fc4, i.e. without even having to spawn a child process.

Define a default stylesheet

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For use when the corpus doesn’t include a `styles.yaml` file. As part of EP01, #73.

The new DSL that’s being defined as part of EP01, #73.

Explain the relationship between Context and Container diagrams

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Recently @kidpollo authored and published an FC4 Container diagram for an internal @FundingCircle system. I think it’s best for Container diagrams to be accompanied (and preceded by) Context diagrams, and...

State explicitly that authors should create Container and Context diagrams together

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I noticed that one of my colleages within FundingCircle authored and published a container diagram on its own, without a context diagram. This seems sub-optimal to me, as Context diagrams...

Add a CI job to lint the all the shell scripts

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I can’t just rely on my editor’s integration with shellcheck. (It let me down just now.)

Start maintaining one or two change logs

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For both the tool and the methodology.

Look into automatically optimizing PNGs when rendering

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To reduce file size. Our images are mostly whitespace and it’s absurd that the file sizes are so large. From a chat with @99-not-out

Add option to render to PDF

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Maybe it should even be the default. As suggested by @99-not-out