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Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

152 points • by dchest • today at 3:55 PM • 15 comments • view on HN

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lukeify • today at 8:21 PM

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.

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Imustaskforhelp • today at 6:26 PM

Is pele open source?

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

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nickmain • today at 5:58 PM

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.

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druvisc • today at 6:56 PM

Just FYI, "pele" is "mouse" in Latvian. :)

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sog • today at 7:36 PM

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