Frontend Visual Graph Editing

A recent project needed a visual flow editor. Here’s a survey of available libraries and tools.

IBM’s Open-Source Node-RED

Apache License

Graph Layout Library dagre-d3

MIT License

Graph Layout Library cola.js

MIT License

Open-Source Drawing Library Joint

MPL-2.0 License + GPLv2 License

Open-Source Drawing Library jsPlumb

MIT License

drawio

Apache License Version 2.0

Open-Source Draw2D

Apache License Version 2.0

GGEditor

MIT License

X6

MIT License

Note: Visual UIs can be built with SVG, Canvas, HTML+CSS, or a mix.

Opinion

Prefer actively maintained projects with an MIT license.