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Simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools. Open source Visio Alternative. Commonly used for explaining your code! Mermaid is a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.
Flowcharts - Basic Syntax Flowcharts are composed of nodes (geometric shapes) and edges (arrows or lines). The Mermaid code defines how nodes and edges are made and accommodates different arrow types, multi-directional arrows, and any linking to and from subgraphs.
Simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools. Open source Visio Alternative. Commonly used for explaining your code! Mermaid is a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.
Mermaid is a JavaScript-based diagramming and charting tool that uses Markdown-inspired text definitions and a renderer to create and modify complex diagrams. The main purpose of Mermaid is to help documentation catch up with development. Doc-Rot is a Catch-22 that Mermaid helps to solve.
Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown. 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 charts from text via javascript. Try it using our editor. Code examples below:
Flowchart. Syntax. A flowchart is a type of diagram that represents a workflow or process, showing the steps as boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting them with arrows. We call the boxes nodes and the arrows edges. This representation can give a step-by-step solution to a given problem. Data is represented in the nodes, and the ...
Mermaid's syntax is used to create diagrams. You'll find that it is not too tricky and can be learned in a day. The next sections dive deep into the syntax of each diagram type. Syntax, together with Deployment and Configuration constitute the whole of Mermaid.
