Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text

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Mermaid Generate diagrams from markdown-like text. Live Editor! 📖 Documentation | 🚀 Getting Started | 🌐 CDN | 🙌 Join Us 简体中文 Try Live Editor previews of future releases: Develop | Next 🏆 Mermaid was nominated and won the JS Open Source Awards (2019) in the category "The most exciting use of technology"!!! Thanks to all involved, people committing pull requests, people answering questions! 🙏 Table of content About 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. Diagramming and documentation costs precious developer time and gets outdated quickly. But not having diagrams or docs ruins productivity and hurts organizational learning. Mermaid addresses this problem by enabling users to create easily modifiable diagrams. It can also be made part of production scripts (and other pieces of code). Mermaid allows even non-programmers to easily create detailed diagrams through the Mermaid Live Editor. For video tutorials, visit our Tutorials page. Use Mermaid with your favorite applications, check out the list of Integrations and Usages of Mermaid. You can also use Mermaid within GitHub as well many of your other favorite applications—check out the list of Integrations and Usages of Mermaid. For a more detailed introduction to Mermaid and some of its more basic uses, look to the Beginner's Guide, Usage and Tutorials. Our PR Visual Regression Testing is powered by Argos with their generous Open Source plan. It makes the process of reviewing PRs with visual changes a breeze. In our release process we rely heavily on visual regression tests using applitools. Applitools is a great service which has been easy to use and integrate with our tests. Mermaid AI Bot Mermaid Bot will help you understand this repository better. You can ask for code exa...

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