There are stuff that converts yaml to dot, like https://gist.github.com/rchrd2/247d1f1e86fa3749429791cf45705...

but honestly just write dot, it's a simple format

see also https://codefreezr.github.io/awesome-graphviz/

Yeah after doing more research I’m leaning towards just writing dot. It does look nice.

Still, from a programmatic standpoint is there JSON equivalent? If wanted to build something like WireViz I would think that would be the most strait forward approach. I know there are lots of libs that compose it with mixes classes but I rather just build json objects...

I just found out that graphviz supports json as output. Check out https://graphviz.org/doc/info/output.html#d:json

(found this here https://stackoverflow.com/a/51443514)

I'm pretty sure that there's some tool out there to convert Graphviz's own json format back to dot

Perhaps https://github.com/jsongraph/jgf-dot do it

And if not, https://codefreezr.github.io/awesome-graphviz/#generators-an... might contain something useful

Cool! Can you use the json as input?

I suppose https://github.com/jsongraph/jgf-dot does exactly that, but not exactly with Graphviz's own json syntax, but using this spec:

https://github.com/jsongraph/json-graph-specification

Looks like the The dot language originated in something called [Webdot][0]

[0]: https://gitlab.com/graphviz/webdot

It's much older. https://linux.die.net/man/1/dot references papers from 1989.