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Mermaid: Markdown-inspired diagramming and flow-charting
- jeffhwang 4y agoThis is pretty cool! I'm a visual thinker but also love how lightweight/transportable/open text is. Historically, images have been so hard to edit/update/maintain; plus either they or their tools are proprietary. If Mermaid.js really gives us what Markdown does (separation of content and presentation), I'm all for it. Gonna explore this more....
- fsflyer 4y agoMermaid only supports a few types of diagrams, but it's great for those. For a more general language, pikchr can be useful. It's a variation on the troff era language pic that generates SVG from text. From the SQLite folks. [0] https://pikchr.org https://pikchr.org
- jeffhwang 4y agoThanks for pointing this out to me. Will check it out!
- snthpy 4y agoIt's nice but I think D2 is nicer. I'm waiting for D2 to be open sourced and going that more tools will adopt it then, like mermaid and diagram.
- BerislavLopac 4y agoPlantUML is pretty much the standard tool of this type: https://plantuml.com/ https://plantuml.com/
- mwexler 4y agoFor sequence diagrams sure, but for many other diagrams, mermaid is a easier to get started in. PlantUML gives more control and variety of images, but with that power comes some complexity. But both are pretty handy.
- phanimahesh 4y agoThere appears to be a book, recently submitted. (recently published?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33461764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33461764