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Re:OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams... by gtirloni on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:08AM (#44434069)
This looks amazing. I find Mermaid.js ugly and the syntax difficult/buggy but unfortunately it's one of the best supported diagram tools in static site generators. It'd be awesome to have Isoflow diagrams embedded in Markdown like that.
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Re:OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams... by x0z on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:16AM (#44434127)
Thanks! That'd definitely be interesting to look into, I'll put it on my TODO
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Re:OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams... by cybrox on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:15AM (#44434123)
I love the idea of mermaid but the syntax is somewhat convolutes and the integrations in tools like GitLab are very unstable.
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Re:OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @06:15PM (#44438448)
That's more of a takedown of whoever built the Gitlab tool than Mermaid itself.

In the world where LLM's are very good at mermaid diagrams is the syntax even that terribly important?

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Re:OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams... by EatFlamingDeath on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @11:25PM (#44440011)
What a terrible take
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Re:OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams... by LtdJorge on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:33AM (#44441348)
I don't know why, but I find the syntax pretty decent when you get used to it. It's declarative.
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Re:OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams... by mgoetzke on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:37AM (#44434324)
Markdown integration would be really great.
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Re:OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams... by romeo88 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @03:23AM (#44441014)
I’d argue even necessary for success.
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Re:OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams... by Tsarp on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:34AM (#44440290)
I had the same issue. I found this and it works decently well and OSS.

https://mermaid-to-excalidraw.vercel.app/

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