We are doing some fundamental changes to how diagrams are rendered, which would enable us to support more renderers. This will enable us to do server side rendering without a browser.
The main reason why we need a browser currently is size calculations of the SVG boxes, which libraries like jsdom does not support.
My wife is going to pursue her PhD in US in the coming months, and I'm working as part-time remote employee of a US startup, while owning a startup in India.
What options do I have, which would allow me to visit her for 1-2 months, without affecting my work?
I've heard B1/B2 holders being questioned during entry after they stayed for a month during previous trips.
As I'm not working full time for the US company, I'm not eligible for L1.
Styling is already present in most charts, and we do have plans to support different layout algorithms which could enable support for custom placement of nodes as well.
A single grammar to support all the different use cases would be challenging. But we did have some plans to introduce guidelines to make different diagram syntaxes more consistent.
For developers, text-based editors are an excellent tool to represent not-so-complex logic/procedures where they don't need to spend time worrying about the visual angle. It's easier to integrate into documentation with a ```mermaid, and easy to keep updated.
So there is no context switching involved in opening up a visual editing tool, downloading the image, integrating it to the docs, then having to repeat the whole process again when there are changes.
As an architect, one of your primary responsibilities would be to create high-level diagrams that need to convey a lot more information to the stakeholders, where the weightage of the visual component is high (layout, colors, etc). Which is where Visual editors shine.
This is wonderful. I've always felt docs are a weak point of Mermaid as there are many features that are undocumented, and it's a little incoherent overall. Will add a link to this cheat sheet from the official docs.
Also, we just released v10 which
- is 70% smaller (<100 kB gzipped)
- has lazy loaded diagrams (only download diagrams that are used in the site)
Disclosure: I'm a maintainer for the project and the feature will be a bit tricky, but should be doable.
One issue is that unlike drawio, mermaid doesn't support custom placement of nodes. We could have different style arrow popups, which could render corresponding connections in default locations.
I also feel that this would be a very nice feature to have.
If anyone is interested in implementing, please let us know, and we can discuss ideas.