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Mermaid

Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code? This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating flowcharts, Gantt charts and sequence diagrams from text via JavaScript.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  • Mac  Requires Node.js or integration into an HTML page
  • Windows  Requires Node.js or integration into an HTML page
  • Linux  Requires Node.js or integration into an HTML page
  • Online
  • JavaScript
  • Node.JS
  • Self-Hosted
  • Cloudron
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  1.  Ad-free
  2.  WYSIWYG Support
  3.  Dark Mode
  4.  Flow Chart
  5.  Graphs
  6.  Create UML entities
  7.  Built-in themes

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  •  90,515 Stars
  •  9,321 Forks
  •  1835 Open Issues
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Shaz Shah
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Co-host at Radio Bros

A nice way to create diagrams using a prescriptive language. It is very powerful so can be a little daunting at first, but give it time.

There are many apps that this can be integrated into, negating the need to setup a development environment.

For example: VSCode/Codium or even a WYSIWYG Test editor (using Markdown) like Typora. I've not used it before but am really enjoying the journey so far.

EDIT: Adding links and correcting some mistakes

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What is Mermaid?

Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code? This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating flowcharts, Gantt charts and sequence diagrams from text via JavaScript.