| ▲ | Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG(pele.run) |
| 150 points by dchest 7 hours ago | 15 comments |
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| ▲ | lukeify 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Anytime I try mermaid for anything more complex than a toy diagram I always end up absolutely frustrated by the arcane and topologically poor layout that is produced. Styling seems like a trivial problem by comparison. |
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| ▲ | kepano 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I strongly agree, and that's why I designed Pele to only follow its syntax not its layout. See the examples https://pele.run/examples The playground also has a Compare mode https://pele.run/playground | |
| ▲ | giancarlostoro an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I kinda just shove what I want out of it to literally any basic model from the frontier labs, I usually dont need anything super fancy, but it does the job, even color coded regions for me (which is fancier than I usually do) and then I can shove that into Lucid since it can render them. | |
| ▲ | tptacek 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Graph layout is a famously hard problem! |
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| ▲ | Imustaskforhelp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is pele open source? I tried to find the source code of it but I was unable in finding so Edit: found it, https://github.com/obsidianmd/pele Also folks, this is a good reminder to please have a github icon on the top of the page to easily show git/github links if the app is open source, also helps in the fact that I can star your projects and bookmark them more easily :-D |
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| ▲ | nickmain 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Does the official Mermaid library still require a full or headless browser environment in order to lay out the SVG? If so, Pele is great news for embedding Mermaid rendering in other places. |
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| ▲ | falsaberN1 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | There is also Merman on Github that outputs a SVG. https://github.com/Latias94/merman | |
| ▲ | invokestatic 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The python mermaidx library works for this, which works well for generating documentation with embedded diagrams as part of CI/CD but the layout/rendering can sometimes be very wonky. For instance I will have a bunch of connections crossing over each other instead of neatly arranged to avoid it. Changing the layout settings does not fix it so sometimes I will just export it from mmdc and embed a png. |
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| ▲ | druvisc 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Just FYI, "pele" is "mouse" in Latvian. :) |
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