mermaid-cli VS Fomantic-UI

you can use mermaid-cli to create pngs/svgs

I come from past experiments with (py)graphviz, yed, probably a couple other forgotten things. (As well as manual diagrams in LucidChart and even Inkscape.) And am generally a non-web python guy.

I was looking at Mermaid last weekend, since a coworker has praised it a few times and I was wanting to play with it.

I think my expectation of how to use it was wrong? I typically expect to share my diagrams as .png files. The main documentation didn't seem to give much guidance in this usecase.

I ended up going to https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli ... there didn't seem to be a simple install-and-use pathway similar to `apt` or `pip`, so I ended up trying the docker image for it. I got it working to create pngs, but I thought having to mess with docker volume mounts and defining my own aliases (`alias mermaid='docker run -u $UID -it --rm -v ~/mermaid:/data minlag/mermaid-cli -i'` so I can do `mermaid blah.mmd` in my ~/mermaid folder) was a bit cumbersome...

Just sharing to see if there's hot takes on where I went wrong, I guess. (for example, I certainly didn't extensively read the docs to understand the usage paradigm it's intended for)

node cli tool if java isn’t your thing. https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

https://fomantic-ui.com/ (fork of Semantic-UI)

Like other CSS-Frameworks, this can be used by adding the CDN Links for CSS/JS to the Page, and then using the components/classes.

I've been using fomantic ui in my project since the beginning. I enjoyed a lot Semantic UI's idea of "semantic css", and it had plenty of components and visual sugar for my needs.

https://fomantic-ui.com is the active community fork of Semantic UI, which depends on jQuery which you're allowed, but has the neatest, most memorable class names and function calls out there. Hence the "semantic" name. Also plenty of support e.g. by datatables.net

There is a simple plugin for Fomantic UI, documented here.

Sounds like https://fomantic-ui.com (the active community fork of Semantic-UI) is more up your alley.

Awesome! I could see a bunch of presets being useful, like primary, secondary, positive, negative, etc. Really I just want a UI library that lets me use styling like semantic ui 😆

- Semantic UI, although it had a lot of potential, the library is no longer maintained and the community fork it's not something I would use in a production environment.

https://fomantic-ui.com/

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