Mermaid ASCII Diagrams

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  • mermaid

    Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown

    Some nits:

    The "Example" buttons don't jump out at me; I found them but it took a while. Also consider labeling them with their point, e.g. "Example 3: Color"

    If you change the input text to something well-formed, the graph seems to update immediately. But if you change it to something ill-formed, the graph doesn't update immediately — and then if you click "Generate" manually, it blanks the input box. Either this is a bug, or the "Generate" button doesn't do what I think it does (i.e. generate output). Again, adding a noun to the verb might help. Or just adding some usage information somewhere on the page.

    For those like me who've never heard of "Mermaid," apparently it's like GraphViz's dot language but different. https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid

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  • diagrams

    :art: Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures

    I use this for generating AWS deployment diagrams, which is kinda similar - https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams

  • mermaid-cli

    Command line tool for the Mermaid library

    I've used [mmdc](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli) to generate mermaid images from a Makefile. It looks like it is implemented with puppeteer, so perhaps it doesn't quite fit your request. But if you just want something you can use at the cli, it is great.

  • goat

    Render ASCII art as SVG diagrams

  • d2

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

  • mermaid-ascii

    Render Mermaid graphs inside your terminal

    Yes, over the course of time I want to increase the coverage of the Mermaid syntax.

    PS: it's open source so feel free to help out ;) https://github.com/AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii

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