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Command line tool for the Mermaid library

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2022-05-05 · latest 2026-08-12

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  1. …purposes? https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-live-editor https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli OP's product is not open source btw
    comment by nylonstrung · 2026-08-12 · in Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout
  2. I will let you make that determination https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli/blob/f87dcd0c9049a... https://github.com/1jehuang/mermaid-rs-renderer/blob/9d6790b...
    comment by vablings · 2026-02-05 · in Show HN: Mmdr – 1000x faster Mermaid rendering in pure Rust (no browser)
  3. Digging, there's https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli For graphviz, the "problem" with it is that it truly is general purpose and trying to make a general purpose syntax for diagrams is difficult. Mermaid tackles this by not having it…
    comment by shagie · 2025-03-13 · in Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?
  4. …(or adapting, since the code is all MIT licensed and I'm not aware of one that uses Selenium): - < https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli >, which uses Puppeteer as the headless browser API. - < https://github.com/remcohaszing/mermaid-is…
    comment by aloisklink · 2025-01-18 · in Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams
  5. I've used [mmdc]( https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli ) to generate mermaid images from a Makefile. It looks like it is implemented with puppeteer, so perhaps it doesn't quite fit your request. But if you just want something you can…
    comment by pjungwir · 2024-10-16 · in Show HN: Mermaid ASCII Diagrams
  6. I was going to point to https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli , but it uses puppeteer and chromium under the hood. That seems...excessive, to render an SVG.
    comment by strken · 2024-07-22 · in Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)
  7. There is https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli
    comment by jasonjmcghee · 2023-10-02 · in Nomnoml
  8. I have used https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli
    comment by ree-san · 2023-07-24 · in The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS
  9. …I'd love to see a way to go without it. [1]: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/issues/3650 [2]: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli/issues/467#issueco...
    comment by aloisklink · 2023-07-24 · in The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS
  10. …The main documentation didn't seem to give much guidance in this usecase. I ended up going to https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli ... there didn't seem to be a simple install-and-use pathway similar to `apt` or `pip`, so I ended up…
    comment by gertlex · 2022-05-05 · in Mermaid: Create diagrams and visualizations using text and code