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Just discovering Mermaid. What does it improve over Graphviz's toolset and Dot language? Ref: https://graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html https://graphviz.org/doc/
by AceJohnny2 4y ago
Just discovering Mermaid. What does it improve over Graphviz's toolset and Dot language?
Ref: https://graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html https://graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html
(tangentially, GraphViz's `gvpr` tool is a woefully underappreciated swiss-army knife for graph processing)
- AceJohnny2 4y agoAt first glance, it appears that Mermaid: 1. Has a more "true-to-output" declaration format which, like Markdown, aims to be representative of the final result even without processing 2. Is founded in javascript processing, so is ready for the web.
- alexisread 4y agoMermaid, as you say is ready for the web, so you can add onclick events etc. to say auto-generated diagrams, for interactive charts in a familiar syntax: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-mermaid https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-mermaid