bpmn-js/README.md

# bpmn-js - BPMN 2.0 for the web

[bpmn-js](https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js) is the BPMN 2.0 diagram modeling and rendering toolkit that powers [bpmn.io](http://bpmn.io).


> the project is still in an early stage. Documentation may be missing and examples may be broken.


## Usage

Get the library via [npm](http://npmjs.org) or [bower](http://bower.io) and use it in your web applications to display [BPMN 2.0 diagrams](http://www.bpmn.org/).


```javascript
var BpmnViewer = require('bpmn-js');

var xml; // my BPMN 2.0 xml
var viewer = new BpmnViewer({ container: 'body' });

viewer.importXML(xml, function(err) {

  if (err) {
    console.log('error rendering', err);
  } else {
    console.log('rendered');
  }
});
```


## Install bpmn-js

### via bower

```
bower install bpmn-js
```

Make sure to include the library + all dependencies into the website.

Checkout an [example project](https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js-examples/tree/master/simple-bower) that shows how to use the library in web applications.


### via npm

```
npm install --save bpmn-js
```

Make sure you use [browserify](http://browserify.org) or the like to bundle your project and bpmn-js for the browser.

Checkout an [example project](https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js-examples/tree/master/simple-commonjs) that shows how to use bpmn-js in node-style web applications.


## Resources

*   [Demo](http://demo.bpmn.io)
*   [Issues](https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js/issues)
*   [Examples](https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js-examples)


## Tools

bpmn-js builds on top of a few additional powerful tools

* [bpmn-moddle](https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-moddle): Read / write support for BPMN 2.0 XML in the browsers
* [diagram-js](https://github.com/bpmn-io/diagram-js): Diagram rendering and editing toolkit


## Building the Project

As long as the project is in alpha stage, you must make sure you setup the whole development environment, including a number of [project dependencies](https://github.com/bpmn-io) according to [our development setup](https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js/blob/master/docs/project/SETUP.md).


## License

Use under the terms of the [bpmn-js license](http://bpmn.io/license).