Consistent architecture diagrams for C++ projects
summary
Argues for storing and generating architecture diagrams from text so visuals live in version control and CI, demonstrates automatic graphs from CMake and Doxygen and scripted diagrams with PlantUML, shows a small race-game repo, VS Code live preview and a build step that emits vector images, reveals how to reuse diagram fragments with includes, notes gaps: no header-to-class import and no automatic diagram sync, and proves the pipeline works end to end with diagrams as code and CMake + PlantUML + Doxygen.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:52About me
- 2:10Introduction and Overview
- 4:23Agenda
- 5:09Golden nuggets
- 6:30Documentation use cases
- 8:27The eight rules of good documentation
- 11:01UML Diagrams
- 12:22Grede System Example
- 12:56Shopping Example
- 13:36Abstract Factory Design Pattern
- 14:14Smart Home Example
- 15:00Consistency
- 17:26Example project
- 18:29Dependency Graphs
- 21:17Collaboration Diagrams
- 28:10Plan UML
- 33:33Takeaways & Outlook
- 44:51Meeting C++ Example
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