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diagrams.net (formerly draw.io) is a versatile graph drawing tool built with HTML5 and JavaScript, allowing users to create various diagrams such as flowcharts, UML diagrams, and network diagrams. Available as a free web app and an offline desktop app for Linux, macOS, and Windows via the Electron framework, it supports local file saving and exports to PNG, JPEG, SVG, and PDF. diagrams.net integrates with cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and GitHub, and is available as a plugin for platforms including NextCloud and Confluence. It is recognized by TechRadar and PCMag as a strong alternative to Lucidchart and Microsoft Visio.

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History

JGraph Ltd

JGraph Ltd is a private limited company founded by Gaudenz Alder and David Benson in 2000 in the United Kingdom.2021

JGraph

JGraph started as a pure Java language software project by Gaudenz Alder and as a university project in 2000 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. The initial public release of JGraph 1.0 was in May 2002.22 The original design for JGraph was to make it an architectural extension of the Swing Java-toolkit and its JTree class.23

mxGraph

In 2005, development began on mxGraph, which is a graph drawing software library written in JavaScript using HTML5 and SVG technologies.24 The project was publicly released in 2006, and supported Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 5.5.2526

mxGraph was originally made available as freeware through a hosted demo of the software for online use,2728 with publicly available source under a end-user license agreement for non-commercial use with the option to purchase a commercial license.29

In 2009, mxGraph was open sourced under the Apache license. JGraph also bundled official ports of mxGraph in other languages including Java, C#, and PHP.

In 2021, the mxGraph Github repository was archived by its owner and is now read-only.30

JGraphX

After the final JGraph 5.x release in February 2010,31 the project renamed its Java-language application to JGraphX, integrated the mxGraph library, and took on mxGraph's version numbering, starting with JGraphX 1.10.0.5 released in 2012.32

Diagramly

In 2011, the company started publishing its hosted service for the mxGraph web application under a separate brand, Diagramly with the domain "diagram.ly".33

draw.io

In 2012, after removing the remaining use of Java applets from its web app, the service is rebranded as draw.io because the ".io suffix is a lot cooler than .ly", said co-founder David Benson in a 2012 interview.343536

diagrams.net

In February 2020, the company announced on its blog that the hosted version of the web application would move from "draw.io" to the "diagrams.net" domain, citing security reasons.37 The move was completed a month later.3839 The software library, file format, and integrated services remain branded as "drawio".

In August 2024, starting with version 24.7.8, the company changed the Apache 2.0 license of the project to their own custom license, a modified Apache 2.0 license that included a clause prohibiting the use of the software in Atlassian's Confluence and Jira products, in order to protect sales of their own Confluence integration.40

As of December 2024 the project reverted back to the Apache 2.0 license.41

See also

References

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