System Designer 4+

Design First. Then Code‪.‬

Erwan Carriou

    • 5.0 • 34 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Design First. Then Code.

System Designer is a low-code development platform for creating systems.

No matter the frameworks you use and the code you write, the most important is the model that you define to create your system.
System Designer helps you to design this model and to generate the classes and components to build your system.

DESIGN YOUR SYSTEM WITH EASE

If you look at the different JavaScript frameworks on the market, you will notice that they all have their own way to define a model, generally only with code.

System Designer uses UML, a standard, to define your model. So you probably already know how to design in System Designer even if you have never run it.

The definition of the model is stored on a JSON format called MSON. With MSON you can define types, classes, one to one / one to many relationships and multi inheritance between classes.

CODE THE BEHAVIOR OF YOUR SYSTEM

Once you have created your model, System Designer generates the skeletons of all your methods. You only have then to add your code to implement them.

System Designer provides you helpers to manage your components. You can easily navigate threw your components to create your application.

CREATE COMPONENTS GRAPHICALLY

There is no need to code to instantiate a component. Create a component in System Designer is like creating a document in a NoSQL Database.

In fact, System Designer acts as an ODM (Object-Document Mapper) to manage your components as NoSQL Documents.

RUN YOUR SYSTEM

You can run your system directly from System Designer and then export it to JavaScript, HTML, JSON or a Node.js module or a Graphviz file.

Because you have defined a model for your application, a Dynamic Type Check is done on every action of your system. All warnings are send and shown in System Designer.

DEBUG YOUR SYSTEM

System Designer can load the model of any system that runs on the browser or on Node.js. You can see the schemas, models, components and methods of the running system and you can edit them.

All modifications to the model done inside System Designer will be send to the running system. There is no need to reload to see your modifications.

DESIGN ON THE GO

System Designer can be used on macOS, iPhone, iPad or any browsers. You can also install it in your project: System Designer requires no backend to work, it is a full web application.

System Designer has a Github module to synchronize your work between all these apps. You can begin your design on your Mac and then continue it on your iPad.

What’s New

Version 5.3.1

- Fixed: possible issue when closing the solution.
- Improved: performance and stability.

Ratings and Reviews

5.0 out of 5
34 Ratings

34 Ratings

smirky1 ,

Nice work

This is a really creative and de-facto well-structured approach to application and API design that I’m really digging… it’s making it pretty painless for me to put together something that I thought would have taken much, much longer. Especially considering I don’t know what I’m doing; I’ve been using Python on and off for the past ten years. But the structure of “behaviors” (and the fact that I’m not doing anything too complicated) makes it pretty easy for me to stack-overflow my way around actually having to learn or do much actual, proper learning, and still put together what’s turning out to be a pretty robust application from virtually nothing…

If I had to complain about something, it would be that some of the icons don’t seem to make much sense… I think if they were just easily to differentiate (different colors maybe), that could be enough. There aren’t a ton of buttons :)

Thanks again. Good work.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback! About the icons, I plan to try new ones and check if they fit better than the actual ones.

phrynne ,

Too few reviews for how great this app is.

I was looking for something to make some nice UML charts. This does that, but makes me think in a much deeper way about how my project will come together. I've learned how to plan software in a new way, and I and my master's thesis thank you for that.

Oh and the UML looks great as well.

I also love that you can sync between platforms (including iOS) via Github. And the documentation is great. This whole thing has been a great experience.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your review! Glad to know that this project helps you for your work/research !

shbhat15 ,

A must have

This is so good and I have used it several times already before starting development. There is definitely room for improvement and can be a little confusing the first time around the UI. But, I still can't go below 5 stars on this app!

Suggestion to the dev: the app icon is pretty big and sticks out weird on the dock. You may want to reduce it to fit the standard size. :)

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your support ! Great to see that the app has been helpful to you.
The app icon has been updated and it is now smaller.

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