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.
kepano 17 minutes ago [-]
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
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.
invokestatic 1 hours ago [-]
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.
Imustaskforhelp 2 hours ago [-]
Is pele open source?
I tried to find the source code of it but I was unable in finding so
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
Styling seems like a trivial problem by comparison.
The playground also has a Compare mode https://pele.run/playground
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