6 comments

  • sbarre 11 minutes ago
    FYI for any new or casual Mermaid users, it comes with a built-in alternate layout called `elk` that I find does a much cleaner job on complex flowcharts.

    See docs here: https://mermaid.ai/open-source/config/layouts.html

  • WalterGR 31 minutes ago
    Graph layout is a very interesting, very hard problem.

    There's even a yearly competition - started in 1994 - whose results are announced at the yearly Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization.

    It's not a subject I'm versed in, but can you talk more about your solution? Do you use a larger constraint solver or is it hand-coded?

    --

    Competition: https://mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/

    The 34th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, to be held in Ontario, Canada: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2026/

    n.b. It's an independent conference, not under the auspices of e.g. IEEE or ACM.

  • iamcoder18 45 minutes ago
    This solves my biggest gripe with Mermaid.

    It's an amazing tool, but I wish it were open source.

    • doublerabbit 15 minutes ago
      Well, it is. Mermaid.js

      Just vibe code a user interface to it.

  • ryanackley 1 hour ago
    Looks cool. Price is pretty steep. Lucid chart is like $16/month.
  • MnemosyneOS 4 days ago
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