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State Diagrams

Eraser's state change diagrams let you visually represent the various states of your services and components and how they transition between states.

  • Easily visualize complex state machines
  • Create diagrams to model core states and also show triggers that cause state changes and the actions that result from them.
  • Document full lifecycle and map out error handling

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State transition diagrams

Building a message queue, data synching mechanism, complex form or some other system with many states and transitions?  A state transition diagram is the perfect way to plan your work. Eraser makes it easy to create and iterate on these diagrams.

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AI enabled diagram-as-code

Sequence diagrams and flow charts are perfect for mapping out canonical flows and entire systems. Eraser's diagram-as-code syntax allows you to create them in minutes. Our syntax was designed to be easy to learn and read, and you can also use our AI workflows to create them in seconds.

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Easy embedding

Complex state machines can be hard to understand. Eraser's unique document embeds allow you to create documentation all in one tool. Working with another documentation tool? Eraser integrates directly with Notion and Confluence and allows embedding updating previews into any system.

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What’s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

Static and dynamic content editing

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

How to customize formatting for each rich text

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.

What’s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

Static and dynamic content editing

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

How to customize formatting for each rich text

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.

Stateful components and systems are notoriously difficult to reason about. Eraser makes it easy to combine narratives and multiple diagrams to effectively explain your systems.

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State transition diagrams

Building a message queue, data synching mechanism, complex form or some other system with many states and transitions?  A state transition diagram is the perfect way to plan your work. Eraser makes it easy to create and iterate on these diagrams.

What’s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

Static and dynamic content editing

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

How to customize formatting for each rich text

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.

Use Cases
AI enabled diagram-as-code

Sequence diagrams and flow charts are perfect for mapping out canonical flows and entire systems. Eraser's diagram-as-code syntax allows you to create them in minutes. Our syntax was designed to be easy to learn and read, and you can also use our AI workflows to create them in seconds.

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Easy embedding

Complex state machines can be hard to understand. Eraser's unique document embeds allow you to create documentation all in one tool. Working with another documentation tool? Eraser integrates directly with Notion and Confluence and allows embedding updating previews into any system.

Why Eraser is the best tool for
State Diagrams

Ease of use

Create an entire diagram without your hands ever leaving the keyboard. Our simple styling options allow you to iterate quickly and polish when you're done.

AI diagrams

AI diagrams are perfect for quickly bootstrapping ideas into diagrams. Copy paste existing descriptions or code snippets to generate a diagram instantly.

Docs + Canvas

Eraser's unique embeds let you drop diagrams directly into your documents.

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Version History

Automatically saved and snapshots generated for our safety of mind.

Export

Flexible exports to PDF, PNG, SVG, markdown.

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What I love most is its Markdown note-taking feature, which allows you to include snapshots of diagrams directly in the canvas. Clicking on these snapshots takes you straight to the relevant diagram section.

Alex Kenley
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As a proof of concept, using Eraser I manually built out a VMWare validated design which is a fairly complex conceptual design for NSX-T Network Virtualization in an enterprise environment. ... I put this whole thing together in under an hour. Pretty wild.

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