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		taklimakan 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or... I was under the impression mermaid is a wrapper around graphviz dot.

nine_k 6 months ago [–]

No, it's an independent, JS-only implementation, and it's way, way less featureful.

xamde 6 months ago | [–]

I believe it uses an cross compiled version of dot in js

mdaniel 6 months ago | | [–]

I don't see the infrastructure for that, rather it seems to be relying on d3 and DAG renderers targeting it https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/mermaid%4011.6.0/...

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