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234 points AlexanderGrooff | 3 comments | 15 Oct 24 11:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.627s | source
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girvo ◴[15 Oct 24 22:52 UTC] No.41853934[source]▶
Hah we rely on Mermaid a _heap_ at work for building internal dependency graphs from `yarn info` JSON data and a super lazy depth-first graph haha. Super useful, nice to see another renderer!

ts-directed-graph outputs Mermaid :)

This tool seems way more useful for hand-made ones, definitely bookmarking

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1. danpalmer ◴[15 Oct 24 23:51 UTC] No.41854275[source]▶
Out of interest have you managed to get Mermaid graphs rendering outside of a browser?

I was trying to do this a while back so I could do server side rendering of graphs, but it seemed to depend strongly on the presence of a DOM. Couldn’t quite get it working with JS-DOM either.

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2. pjungwir ◴[16 Oct 24 07:52 UTC] No.41856633[source]▶
I've used [mmdc](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli) to generate mermaid images from a Makefile. It looks like it is implemented with puppeteer, so perhaps it doesn't quite fit your request. But if you just want something you can use at the cli, it is great.
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3. danpalmer ◴[16 Oct 24 22:27 UTC] No.41864479[source]▶
Thanks. You're right, unfortunately this doesn't fit my needs, but I can see how it would be fine for CLI and casual use cases.