Ambastha Diagrams Live Previewer 🎨🚀

An ultra-lightweight, lightning-fast extension providing comprehensive syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and native live-updating previews for Ambastha Diagram (.abd) files directly inside Visual Studio Code.

✨ Features

• High-Fidelity Rendering: Instantly parse and preview Use Case, Gantt, Kanban, Flowcharts, Pert, CPM, Entity Relationship (ERD), and State Machine diagrams.
• Smart Language Integration: Full TextMate token highlighting explicitly mapped for diagram syntax layouts.
• Live Interactive Synchronization: View your visual architectural updates instantly alongside your workspace workspace text inputs.
• Vector File Exports: Ship your optimized layouts directly into crisp vector-graphic payloads (.svg or .png).

🚀 Why Ambastha for VS Code?

Most diagramming extensions are ports of heavyweight desktop tooling, which can introduce lag, dependency overhead, or degraded performance in VS Code Web environments.

Ambastha-Diagrams takes a different approach:

🌐 Native Web Performance

Built from the ground up for VS Code Web. We don't merely run in the browser — we were designed for it.

⚡ Zero-Overhead Rendering

No external dependencies. No Java runtimes. No heavyweight D3.js stacks.

Your editor remains responsive even when working with complex architectural or planning diagrams.

🤖 LLM-Optimized DSL

Our syntax is intentionally designed for AI-assisted workflows.

Whether diagrams are authored manually or generated by an LLM, the DSL emphasizes:

• Rigid structure
• Predictable grammar
• Reduced ambiguity
• Error-resistant generation

The result is a diagram language optimized for both human developers and AI tooling.

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus

🛠️ Contribution Commands

Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P) and type Ambastha Diagrams: to discover all built-in layout management commands:

• Ambastha Diagrams: Open Preview
• Ambastha Diagrams: Open Preview to the Side
• Ambastha Diagrams: Export as SVG
• Ambastha Diagrams: Export as PNG

⚙️ Settings Configuration

This extension provides custom properties available inside your standard VS Code global JSON settings.json workspace preferences:

• ambastha.registryUrl: String (Default: "") — Assign a URL path string pointing to a custom, remote diagram configuration JSON manifest. Leave empty to use the robust bundled engine library defaults.

📄 Extension License

Distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the accompanying LICENSE file template inside the directory layout footprint for explicit usage regulations.