--- title: We built Liam ERD, a modern tool for effortlessly... description: Liam ERD is a tool that generates beautiful and interactive ER diagrams from your database. It features a clean design, simple reverse engineering, effortless... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/we-built-liam-erd-a-modern-tool-for-effortlessly-auto-generating-interactive-readable-er-diagrams--8slazdcb3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: We built Liam ERD, a modern tool for effortlessly auto-generating interactive, readable ER diagrams from database schemas. | daily.dev og:description: Liam ERD is a tool that generates beautiful and interactive ER diagrams from your database. It features a clean design, simple reverse engineering, effortless... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/we-built-liam-erd-a-modern-tool-for-effortlessly-auto-generating-interactive-readable-er-diagrams--8slazdcb3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8SlAzDcB3.png og:image:alt: We built Liam ERD, a modern tool for effortlessly auto-generating interactive, readable ER diagrams from database schemas. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # We built Liam ERD, a modern tool for effortlessly auto-generating interactive, readable ER diagrams from database schemas. **[Open Source](https://daily.dev/sources/opensourcesquad)** · [@masutaka](https://daily.dev/masutaka) · 212 upvotes · 11 comments ## Summary Liam ERD is a tool that generates beautiful and interactive ER diagrams from your database. It features a clean design, simple reverse engineering, effortless setup, and high performance for projects of all sizes. It's fully open-source, allowing contributions and customization, and is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@vdmokstati** · 2 upvotes > very nice :) merci xx **@anmolbaranwal** · 2 upvotes > Nice! 🔥 **@tanvirshaikh** · 2 upvotes > this is coooool... > but some more feature are required like highlighting multiple relationships , different colors etc .. **@neyaznafiz** · 1 upvotes > It's a great tool, but you should fix some design issues on Liam's website, such as the horizontal scrollbar next to the hero section. You can use here overflow-x: 'auto' rather than 'scroll' and use a custom design for the scrollbar based on your website look. > >  **@ohhzed** · 1 upvotes > thx guys ! --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/we-built-liam-erd-a-modern-tool-for-effortlessly-auto-generating-interactive-readable-er-diagrams--8slazdcb3) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/we-built-liam-erd-a-modern-tool-for-effortlessly-auto-generating-interactive-readable-er-diagrams--8slazdcb3","headline":"We built Liam ERD, a modern tool for effortlessly auto-generating interactive, readable ER diagrams from database schemas.","text":"Shared: liam-hq/liam: Automatically generates beautiful and easy-to-read ER diagrams from your database.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/we-built-liam-erd-a-modern-tool-for-effortlessly-auto-generating-interactive-readable-er-diagrams--8slazdcb3","datePublished":"2025-02-03T22:48:02.886Z","dateModified":"2025-02-03T22:48:32.913Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Takashi Masuda","url":"https://daily.dev/masutaka","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--Pnaz9jjI--/f_auto/v1737450707/avatars/avatar_3RVliygFp4NfX8T06iqo1","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":130}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--HRgLpUt6--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2003","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":212},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":11}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/XKDK5mwrt"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"very nice :) merci xx","datePublished":"2025-02-07T17:03:20.341Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/8SlAzDcB3#c-TGHibSLVv","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"vdmo kstati","url":"https://daily.dev/vdmokstati","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--Rkr_4F6k--/f_auto/v1728644420/avatars/avatar_gTmqW79utSH3f85Y7YJUt"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice! 🔥","datePublished":"2025-02-04T07:08:11.029Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/8SlAzDcB3#c-G0sJSGKov","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Anmol Baranwal","url":"https://daily.dev/anmolbaranwal","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/74038190?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"this is coooool…\nbut some more feature are required like highlighting multiple relationships , different colors etc …","datePublished":"2025-02-06T06:08:05.284Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/8SlAzDcB3#c-r79JCGhFV","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanvir Shaikh","url":"https://daily.dev/tanvirshaikh","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--cwxvun5d--/f_auto/v1724932893/avatars/avatar_nlEHog1G2F4vZjXDeo35x"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"It’s a great tool, but you should fix some design issues on Liam’s website, such as the horizontal scrollbar next to the hero section. 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