mermaid-cli

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

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  • 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
    I'm one of the maintainers of the mermaid-cli project, and unfortunately, no.

    Mermaid needs a browser's layout engine to run properly [1], but I haven't yet seen a library that will help us without puppeteer.

    And yep, NPM (or another Node.JS package manager) is still needed for installation. I was working on trying to bundle all of mermaid-cli's dependencies (aka Node.JS, puppeteer) into one massive single-file exe last weekend, but it's seems we're blocked by missing features in other packages [2].

    If anyone has any ideas on how to implement these things easily, feel free to help-out :) I'm also not a big fan of puppeteer, so I'd love to see a way to go without it.

    [1]: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/issues/3650

    [2]: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli/issues/467#issueco...

    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
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