This repository is inspired from the Draw-the-Net web application. As such, it is not even remotely useful nor complete, let even in prototype status. DO NOT USE. Its purpose has been to extract the Draw-the-Net codebase into one single command line interface, for command line consumption.
Status: It does generate an SVG seemingly correctly, but the height is therein set to 0. So: not a satisfactory situation. Nonetheless, the code extraction from the browser oriented javascript to pure node.js javascript has been performed. Please do feel free to capitalise on that work should you wish to provide satisfactory SVG files as output from the YAML Draw-the-Net format from a command line interface.
For the overall context, see the Draw-the-Net demo.
The original codebase has initially been migrated to a setting where browser based functionalities are handled by the JSDOM polyfill library. It then has been ported to run in a headless browser with puppeteer, and that is the actual situation. This means that there is a development pathway to improve the behaviour of the library in both context (JSDOM polyfill and puppeteer) before making the library behave well in a standalone setup and eventually get it packaged for pure node. The present codebase is alos likely an interesting testbed, should one wish to improve the support for SVG in the JSDOM polyfill library.
Execute just run to run the code on a sample YAML file, and just clean to
clean up.
To generate the urls.svg file from the network topology description in
urls.yaml, you can also perform npx net_draw urls.yaml > urls.svg.
The npm install -g . command will install the net_draw executable on your
system.
NOTA BENE: All this really is a quick hack.