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Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art

https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
73•mellosouls•1h ago

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jonfw•1h ago
I love ASCII diagrams! The fact that I can write a diagram that looks equally wonderful in my terminal via cat as it does rendered on my website is incredible.

A good monospaced font and they can look really sharp!

I will definitely give this tool a shot.

I will also shout out monodraw as a really nice little application for building generic ASCII diagrams- https://monodraw.helftone.com/

mixmastamyk•24m ago
^Unicode.
jackconsidine•56m ago
> Aesthetics — Might be personal preference, but wished they looked more professional

Im sold. Love mermaid but totally agree.

a_t48•51m ago
The live demo requires some download of an AI agent platform? I'd really like to try this but not if that's what's required.
csmantle•34m ago
The devs should really setup a client-only GitHub Pages for an accessible demo. Judging from skimming the project itself, it's definitely doable without locking into their platform.
dleeftink•49m ago
Pair this with Unicode plots[0] and you're set!

[0]: https://github.com/JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl

wyes•30m ago
How is the LaTeX compatibility? Base mermaid's LaTeX compatibility is quite sparse.
cjlm•21m ago
See also graph-easy.online (https://github.com/cjlm/graph-easy-online)
rahimnathwani•17m ago
Wow! It has this:

  Subgraph Direction Override: Using direction LR inside a subgraph while the outer graph flows TD.
With this, you should be able to approximate swim lane diagrams, which is something Mermaid lacks.

The last time I checked, Mermaid couldn't render subgraphs in a different direction than the overall graph.

tempaccsoz5•12m ago
The actual Mermaid ASCII renderer is from another project [0]. This project transliterated it to typescript and added their own theming.

[0]: https://github.com/AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii

doanbactam•4m ago
I've had issues with other CLI wrappers there. ASCII output is a nice touch for including diagrams directly in code comments without breaking formatting. Does it handle large graphs well, or does the text wrap get messy? We tried using `graph-easy` for this before but the syntax was annoying. 6.

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