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I love mermaid because it’s so easily source-controlled. It also has pretty solid documentation. Don’t love that each diagram type typically has significantly
by klabetron 2y ago
I love mermaid because it’s so easily source-controlled. It also has pretty solid documentation.
Don’t love that each diagram type typically has significantly different syntax.
Also don’t love (as mentioned by another commenter) the lack of control over layout—yea there are some advanced options for this but I find them obscure and difficult to configure.
I did create an internal tool that scans my Firestore data model and outputs an ER Diagram in mermaid. Works really nicely for that.
- mycall 2y agoI'm surprised nobody has fixed the layout yet. I often get graph nodes that draw off screen as it easily get too wide too fast.
- charles_f 2y agoYou summarized well my three complaints about the tool.
- ajax7 2y agoIs your tool open source by chance?
- kelseyfrog 2y agoThere's basic layout issues that can drive users mad. I wanted to left justify text[1] in a note for a sequence diagram. It only worked in their live editor vs their cloud-backed web app because only the former exposes styling. 1. it's otherwise locked to center justified
- THBC 2y agoJust make some of your relationship arrows longer by adding more dashes.