bpmn-js/README.md

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

bpmn-js - BPMN 2.0 for the web

Build Status

bpmn-js is a BPMN 2.0 diagram rendering toolkit and web modeler.

bpmn-js in action

Usage

No need for additional setup: Try out our seed project or use the pre-packaged version of the library.

Get the library via npm or Bower and use it in your web applications to display BPMN 2.0 diagrams.

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');
  }
});

Installation

Fetch bpmn-js prebuilt or install it via npm.

Fetch Prebuilt

The bower-bpmn-js repository contains pre-built bundles of bpmn-js.

Download them directly or fetch them with Bower:

bower install bpmn-js

Checkout the example project to get started.

Install via npm

Fetch the library via npm to get fine grained access to the parts you need:

npm install --save bpmn-js

Make sure you use browserify or the like to bundle your project and bpmn-js for the browser.

Checkout the example project to learn more.

Resources

Building the Project

Perform the following steps to build the library, including running all tests:

cd bpmn-js
npm install
grunt

When building the latest development snapshot you may need to perform additional project setup.

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

  • bpmn-moddle: Read / write support for BPMN 2.0 XML in the browsers
  • diagram-js: Diagram rendering and editing toolkit

License

Use under the terms of the bpmn.io license.