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PlantUML had/has(?) a JSON graph mode too, which works well.

Now, this is light years from PlantUML, but Vega abd Vega-Lite can do just about anything with JSON data. It's the most powerful textual graph description vocabulary I've ever seen, by far, but it's too verbose for my average user.



https://plantuml.com/json

Not sure how to get rid of the enclosing PlantUML pragmas:

  @startjson
  {
     "fruit":"Apple",
     "size":"Large",
     "color": ["Red", "Green"]
  }
  @endjson


Hmm! I dunno. I usually use PlantUML in Asciidoc and put an include in there to pull the JSON data into the graph block.

  //Asciidoc follows
  [plantuml]
  ----
  @startjson
  include::../path/to/fruit.json[]
  @endjson
  ----
  ```


I don't have to download anything to use this tool. You have to download PlantUML


That's not exactly true. This is hostable, just like PlantUML is, but PlantUML also hosts an instance, linked directly on their sidebar: https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml


I'm never in a position where I can use cloud-hosted stuff, sad to say. So everything is hosted in-house. Between that, ITAR, and the general red tape nightmare it's sort of a minor miracle anyone makes anything.

Having said that I really like this new JSONCRACK a lot, now that I've played with it a little.




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