Mermaid VS diagrams

Compare Mermaid vs diagrams and see what are their differences.

Mermaid

Edit, preview and share mermaid charts/diagrams. New implementation of the live editor. (by mermaid-js)

diagrams

:art: Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures (by mingrammer)
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Mermaid diagrams
90 110
3,562 34,870
5.4% -
9.1 6.2
6 days ago 14 days ago
TypeScript Python
MIT License MIT License
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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 2024-03-30.

diagrams

Posts with mentions or reviews of diagrams. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Mermaid and diagrams you can also consider the following projects:

plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description

c4-draw.io - Draw.io template/diagram containing C4 Model shapes. Drawio Diagrams.net

kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!

Graphviz - Simple Python interface for Graphviz

obsidian-releases - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

obsidian-excalidraw-plugin - A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian

golang-nextjs-portable - Go program with embedded Next.js app.

excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

DrawThe.Net - drawthe.net draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons. Given a yaml file describing the hierarchy of the network and it's connections, a resulting diagram will be created.

pygraphviz - Python interface to Graphviz graph drawing package

wavedrom - :ocean: Digital timing diagram rendering engine

vscode-drawio - This unofficial extension integrates Draw.io (also known as diagrams.net) into VS Code.