liam-hq/liam
Liam
Liam is a database schema visualizer and interactive entity-relationship diagram generator. It parses SQL schemas and ORM formats to create visual representations of database structures, allowing users to analyze table relationships and navigate complex layouts.
The project distinguishes itself through CI/CD pipeline integration, acting as a documentation automator that synchronizes diagrams with database schema changes during deployment. It supports sharing specific perspectives of a schema via coordinate-based view links that capture precise zoom levels and filtered views.
The tool provides a wide range of visualization capabilities, including interactive canvas rendering with panning and zooming, state-driven view filtering to reduce visual clutter, and manual node manipulation to reorganize layouts. It also supports the generation of static diagrams for use in internal repositories.
Features
- Database Schema Visualizers - Provides a graphical interface for exploring database structures and generating interactive entity-relationship diagrams from SQL schemas.
- ER Diagram Generators - Generates interactive entity-relationship diagrams by parsing database schemas from SQL dialects and ORM formats.
- SQL and ORM Schema Parsers - Parses various SQL dialects and ORM formats to create a standardized representation of database entities.
- Diagram Canvas Renderers - Renders database schemas as interactive diagrams on an HTML canvas with support for panning and zooming.
- Diagram Renderers - Transforms database schemas into visual ER diagrams with interactive panning and zooming capabilities.
- Diagram Viewers - Ships a web-based viewer with zooming, panning, and filtered views for navigating complex database entity-relationship diagrams.
- Graph-Based Spatial Positioning - Implements layout logic to automatically organize complex entity-relationship diagrams on the canvas.
- Database Architecture Documentation - Enables analysis of complex database architectures through filtered views and relationship highlighting.
- Automated Documentation Synchronizers - Automates the synchronization of visual database documentation within deployment pipelines.
- Graph View Filtering - Provides real-time visibility toggles for table fields and schema nodes to reduce visual clutter.
- Diagram Synchronization - Synchronizes visual architectural diagrams with underlying database schema changes within deployment pipelines.
- CI/CD Pipeline Integrations - Integrates diagram generation into CI/CD pipelines to automate the updating of database documentation.
- Documentation Automation - Provides automated synchronization of database diagrams within deployment pipelines to ensure visual documentation matches the current schema.
- Schema Topology Analysis - Provides relationship highlighting and filtering to isolate and analyze specific segments of a database layout.
- Schema Documentation Generators - Automatically updates database diagrams during deployment cycles to keep visual documentation synchronized with the schema.
- Schema Visualization - Generates ER diagrams from databases and ORMs.
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