- Has a C4 Plugin so you can make C4 Diagrams.
- Has a VSCode Plugin
- Need to set it to local Render if project is not open source or is connecting to sensitive sources.
- Quick and easy
- No offline support
- If you download the image not text, you can’t “pick up where you left off”
- Not really code (supports
.txt)
- Web only/image is hosted, possibly a no go if security is a concern - links directly to the images
- An enterprise modelling language that is free and open
- Open source modelling toolkit available: Archi
- As lots of default shapes, AWS etc
- Diagrams as code
- Also offers publishing of ADRs to enrich the generated diagrams
- Developed by Simon Brown, and so has strong C4 model support
- See MoJ’s HMPPS (archived) example
ToDo: This MoJ repository has been deleted, linking to the version in the Software Heritage Archive. Update this link to something that is still live.
- Help get a better understanding of technical debt in a code base and how to resolve it
- Applicable across a large range of languages