Schachte/Mermrender

https://github.com/Schachte/Mermrender

RESTful rendering pipeline for generating sequence and UML diagrams using Mermaid to embed in Github readmes, Markdown docs and more! Mermrender uses Mermaid.JS and Mermaid CLI under the hood.

Mermaid
Credit: https://mermaidjs.github.io/

Setup in VSCode

Check out this awesome guide for setting up diagram rendering within VSCode: https://quintussential.com/archive/2017/12/10/Diagraming-with-Mermaid/

Motivation

Github doesn’t support rendering Mermaid diagrams in their Markdown editor. Mermaid is a powerful tool that uses a well-defined schema to then interpret diagrams into an SVG. The idea of this tool is to allow embedding images dynamically via a REST endpoint to add UML/Sequence diagrams into your documentation/readmes/markdown files easily, whether the editor supports Mermaid or not.

Demo

demo

Usage

1) Generate the diagram code

sequenceDiagram
    participant A as Alice
    participant J as John
    A->>J: Hello John, how are you?
    J->>A: Great!

You can edit and render them live on this website: https://mermaidjs.github.io/mermaid-live-editor/

2) Escape the diagram to encode it

Next, you need to run it through an escaper like the following: https://www.freeformatter.com/java-dotnet-escape.html#ad-output

3) Generate the image link to embed

Send a POST request to localhost:3000/encode with a diagram key in the body with the above escaped diagram:

Example Body:

{
  "diagram": "sequenceDiagramrn    participant Alicern    participant Bobrn    Alice->>John: Hello John, how are you?rn    loop Healthcheckrn        John->>John: Fight against hypochondriarn    endrn    Note right of John: Rational thoughts <br/>prevail...rn    John-->>Alice: Great!rn    John->>Bob: How about you?rn    Bob-->>John: Jolly good!"
}

This will generate a respose:

{
  "embed_link": "http://localhost:3000/diagram/2VxdWVuY2VEaWF"
}

You can embed the following embed_link by using the following syntax:

Markdown

![alt_caption](http://localhost:3000/diagram/2VxdWVuY2VEaWF)

HTML

<img src="http://localhost:3000/diagram/2VxdWVuY2VEaWF"/>

BBCode (Forums)

[img]http://localhost:3000/diagram/2VxdWVuY2VEaWF[/img]

Additional Options

Add the following optional query parameters to add custom dimensions to your images:

(Not yet implemented)

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