Bausteinsicht: Beta Tester, 33 Issues, and What Makes the Tool Technically Interesting
The Problem Bausteinsicht Solves Architecture documentation goes stale. That’s not a matter of opinion, it’s practice. You draw a nice C4 diagram, the system keeps evolving, and three months later the picture no longer matches reality. Text-based tools like Structurizr or LikeC4 solve the problem from one side: text lives in Git, is versionable, diffable, reviewable. But you lose direct visual editability. Bausteinsicht tries to hold onto both sides at once: the model lives as a JSONC file in the repository, draw.io is the visual frontend — and synchronization runs in both directions. ...