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Re: Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor

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stronglikedan wrote: post #7
hackthemack wrote: post #6

Question for mermaid users out there. I have not used mermaid more than just superficially looking at it but it looks to me like a re-implementation of graphviz? Which has been around forever. Is there something it does that makes it more appealing? I am not knocking this Free Mermaid Diagram Editor either. Seems decent. But, similarly, edotor has been around forever. https://edotor.net/

Mermaid has become the de facto charting language when working with AI, so it has been elevated to the chosen one, like Python.

It also renders on GitHub in markdown files with ```mermaid``` code blocks so it's super useful for adding architecture diagrams and similar to your README

Re: Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor

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BLKNSLVR wrote: post #3

Handy. I've been (very loosely) trying to get AI to generate diagrams for a while, and even Copilot can't get Visio's file format correct enough to allow Visio to open it successfully. This is a nice clean interface I can just paste attempts into. Thank you!

I created https://smalldocs.org to help with this. After installing you can tell your agent to "sdoc me a mermaid diagram of X flow" or "sdoc me a visual architecture of this repo" or something, and it handles it nicely (imo!).

Here is the mermaid diagram gallery: https://smalldocs.org/s/PpArByXuNBA5kGS1JVMUW6#k=uTqNRLqzz_T...

Code available: https://github.com/espressoplease/smalldocs

Discord: https://discord.gg/txjATTsDaq

Re: Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor

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Post by ghosts_ »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #3

Handy. I've been (very loosely) trying to get AI to generate diagrams for a while, and even Copilot can't get Visio's file format correct enough to allow Visio to open it successfully. This is a nice clean interface I can just paste attempts into. Thank you!

Yeah the main product I'm working on (Moxie Docs) has AI generation of mermaid diagrams, I find that it works __well enough__ but I needed some strong guardrails, quality checks, and templating to make sure it doesn't generate broken diagrams (or useless ones). First few iterations it would create a diagram for everything and it was a bit zealous on when it decided diagrams would be useful.

Re: Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor

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Post by hackthemack »

dTal wrote: post #10
hackthemack wrote: post #6

Question for mermaid users out there. I have not used mermaid more than just superficially looking at it but it looks to me like a re-implementation of graphviz? Which has been around forever. Is there something it does that makes it more appealing? I am not knocking this Free Mermaid Diagram Editor either. Seems decent. But, similarly, edotor has been around forever. https://edotor.net/

It does more types of charts, including Gantt charts. Very useful.

Thank you. I went and looked at what else it could do and it does have a much larger feature set.
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