Free Mermaid Diagram Editor

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• Probably because the official editor sucks after paywalling features and steering you into signing up.
  by nonethewiser
• Handy.

  I've been (very loosely) trying to get AI to generate diagrams for a while, and even Copilot can't get Visio's file format correct enough to allow Visio to open it successfully.

  This is a nice clean interface I can just paste attempts into. Thank you!

  by BLKNSLVR
• just get ai to generate mermaid, it's super competent at doing it, you don't really need any other tools.
  by keithnz
• I created https://smalldocs.org to help with this. After installing you can tell your agent to "sdoc me a mermaid diagram of X flow" or "sdoc me a visual architecture of this repo" or something, and it handles it nicely (imo!).

  Here is the mermaid diagram gallery: https://smalldocs.org/s/PpArByXuNBA5kGS1JVMUW6#k=uTqNRLqzz_T...

  Code available: https://github.com/espressoplease/smalldocs

  Discord: https://discord.gg/txjATTsDaq

  by FailMore
• https://kroki.io/#try

  Shout out to Kroki, which offers Mermaid and many other text-based diagramming formats.

  by thangalin
• Question for mermaid users out there. I have not used mermaid more than just superficially looking at it but it looks to me like a re-implementation of graphviz? Which has been around forever. Is there something it does that makes it more appealing?

  I am not knocking this Free Mermaid Diagram Editor either. Seems decent. But, similarly, edotor has been around forever.

  https://edotor.net/

  by hackthemack
• It does more types of charts, including Gantt charts. Very useful.
  by dTal
• Mermaid has become the de facto charting language when working with AI, so it has been elevated to the chosen one, like Python.
  by stronglikedan
• Thanks for dropping this here. I have been frustrated for quite some time. I blindly followed the advice to learn some mermaid. Then I discovered that the ecosystem absolutely sucks.
  by rdwrrr