mermaid-cli VS mermaid

Compare mermaid-cli vs mermaid and see what are their differences.

mermaid-cli

Command line tool for the Mermaid library (by mermaid-js)

mermaid

Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown (by knsv)
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mermaid-cli mermaid
7 122
2,031 66,838
4.6% 2.1%
8.6 10.0
4 days ago 4 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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mermaid-cli

Posts with mentions or reviews of mermaid-cli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-02.
  • Nomnoml
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2023
  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2023
  • D2 is now open source – a new, modern language that turns text to diagrams
    24 projects | /r/programming | 22 Nov 2022
    you can use mermaid-cli to create pngs/svgs
  • Mermaid: Create diagrams and visualizations using text and code
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2022
    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)

  • Open Source Flowchart Generator?
    2 projects | /r/opensource | 27 Mar 2022
  • Diagrams as Code
    1 project | /r/coding | 28 Feb 2021
    node cli tool if java isn’t your thing. https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

mermaid

Posts with mentions or reviews of mermaid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mermaid-cli and mermaid you can also consider the following projects:

d2 - D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description

pom-visualizer-maven-plugin - Maven plugin to visualize the POM you are working on

C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures

windows11 - Windows 11 in React 💻🌈⚡ [Moved to: https://github.com/blueedgetechno/win11React]

aws-icons-for-plantuml - PlantUML sprites, macros, and other includes for Amazon Web Services services and resources

Fomantic-UI - Fomantic-UI is the official community fork of Semantic-UI

draw.io - draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.

diagrams - :art: Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures

text-to-diagram-site - Compare syntax, layouts, outputs between languages for generating diagrams with text.

excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams