Mermaid is an open source JavaScript-based diagramming and charting tool that uses Markdown-inspired text definitions, and a renderer, to create and modify complex diagrams

Screenshot showing some mardown code that renders a diagramming view below it

The main purpose of Mermaid is to help documentation catch up with development. Diagramming and documentation costs precious developer time and gets outdated quickly. But not having diagrams or docs ruins productivity and hurts organizational […]