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Mermaid
- Conquering System Design Diagrams: My Shift to Mermaid.js
- Mermaid Live Editor
- Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
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Using Mermaid JS to generate a diagram from Power Automate
Mermaid JS is a tool that lets you create diagrams and charts such as flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts using simple text commands. It works by converting your text commands into a graphical representation that you can customize and share. https://mermaid.live/
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 22 January 2024
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LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
I'm not OP, but I just ask GPT to turn code or process or whatever else into a mermaid diagram. Most of the time I don't even need to few-shot prompt it with examples. Then you dump the resulting text into something like https://mermaid.live/ and voilà.
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Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw
I like excalidraw for live discussions but if I want to make more detailed or better looking diagrams, I really enjoy these two tools:
- For drag-and-drop/WYSIWYG, I really like DrawIO. They have a web version https://app.diagrams.net/ but I strongly recommend the desktop version https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/
- For text-as-diagram, I think Mermaid wins this by default since GitHub added markdown support for these: https://mermaid.live/ (This was github's announcement https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil... )
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I lost a full day's work thanks to Mermaid.
After hours without being able to solve this problem, I decided to make the chart directly in Mermaid's live editor and export it to PNG and SVG. The big problem is that the letters are still too small, the quality of the PNG is very low, and the SVG only works on the web, not with other applications like PowerPoint and Inkscape.
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Nomnoml
You can export to PNG and other formats in the Mermaid editor https://mermaid.live/
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Creating mindmaps with ChatGPT
Copy paste code here: https://mermaid.live
mermaid-cli
- Nomnoml
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS
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D2 is now open source – a new, modern language that turns text to diagrams
you can use mermaid-cli to create pngs/svgs
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Mermaid: Create diagrams and visualizations using text and code
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?
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Diagrams as Code
node cli tool if java isn’t your thing. https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli
What are some alternatives?
plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description
d2 - D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
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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.
diagrams - :art: Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
wavedrom - :ocean: Digital timing diagram rendering engine
text-to-diagram-site - Compare syntax, layouts, outputs between languages for generating diagrams with text.