Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
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Re: Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
#2I have an almost exhaustive list [1] of browser based text to diagram tools. Some specialised tools (like https://sequencediagram.org/) so much better at what they do than any generic ones like mermaid.
Re: Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
#3i have been quite enjoying https://www.eraser.io/diagramgpt
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#4Like PlantUML?
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#5Like PlantUML?
Nicer looking but fewer diagram types
Also, AFAIK, their "render locally" story is "boot up headless chrome, good luck" which isn't great
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#6Little weird to see this on the lead page… mermaid has been around for a long time. And in general I’ve found its real world use pretty lacking.
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#7I love Mermaid diagrams. I let my coding LLMs generate diagrams during architecture design and then afterward for accuracy— Sequence Diagrams, CSD’s, Flowcharts, DFDs, and ERDs. Couldn’t be simpler. I’m happy.
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#8I liked Mermaid but unfortunately LLMs don't understand it well, so I switched to Latex tikz which LLMs know pretty well. At least I know Gemini 2.5 Pro does a good job at tikz. 3.7 and o1 were meh.
Re: Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
#9I have an almost exhaustive list [1] of browser based text to diagram tools. Some specialised tools (like https://sequencediagram.org/ ) so much better at what they do than any generic ones like mermaid. [1] https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/
70! That is awesome
Re: Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
#10Little weird to see this on the lead page… mermaid has been around for a long time. And in general I’ve found its real world use pretty lacking.
I use it and see it many times per month as it’s the preferred way of sticking graphics and diagrams in markdown in git repos and generated static sites.
It’s so handy for putting a sequence diagram in your docs and then tracking the changes over time using git.
I’m curious what other software developers use if not this. I’ve tried specific graph and drawing tools like lucid and Visio, but the simplicity of mermaid is nice. And I don’t know anything else that shows git blame for who changed what in my diagram, when.