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Mermaid ASCII

Command-line renderer that draws Mermaid diagrams as terminal text art

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A Go program that reads Mermaid flowchart and sequence diagram definitions from a file or stdin and prints them as box-drawing or plain ASCII art. Options control spacing, padding, maximum width, and edge styles such as dotted, thick, and labeled arrows. It also includes a small web interface for rendering diagrams interactively. Developers use it to preview diagrams in a shell, embed them in plain-text docs, or view them over SSH without a browser.

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1.6k1,607

Forks
77
Commits
333
Contributors
20
Language
Go
License
MIT
Last commit
Oct 19, 2026
On GitHub since
February 2023
First release
February 2023
Platforms
web, macOS, Linux, CLI
Self-hostable
No
Author
Alexander Grooff
Tags
  • markdown
  • diagrams
  • documentation

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