Mermaid – Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text

Re:Mermaid – Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text by andreareina on Sunday February 03, 2019 @03:33AM (#19068457)

For anyone interested in generating diagrams from text, I recommend also taking a look at Graphviz[1] and PlantUML[2]. Graphviz excels at box-and-arrow kind of diagrams as well as graphs, I frequently use it to visually map out dependencies, processes and state transitions, etc. There's an online version here[3]. PlantUML I use less, both because it's slower (you pay the JVM startup tax on every invocation) and because I have less use for the kind of diagrams it specializes in.

[1] https://graphviz.com

[2] http://plantuml.com

[3] https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline/

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Re:Mermaid – Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text by metaphor on Sunday February 03, 2019 @04:36AM (#19068635)

A quick correction to citation:

[1] https://www.graphviz.org/

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Re:Mermaid – Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text by flarg on Sunday February 03, 2019 @03:57AM (#19068509)

Plantuml is pretty good because it like a mini programming language for diagrams, and not just UML. There's also UMLet which I often read recommend.

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Re:Mermaid – Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text by tomkludy on Sunday February 03, 2019 @07:54AM (#19069330)

And https://www.websequencediagrams.com

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Re:Mermaid – Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text by doug1001 on Sunday February 03, 2019 @02:34PM (#19071671)

graphviz: rock solid, and bindings for just about every language

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