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mermaid
=======
![Alt text](../img/header.png)
Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown.
Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code?
This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript. [Try it using our editor](http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/live_editor).
Code examples below:
```
%% An example of a flowchart
graph TD;
A-->B;
A-->C;
B-->D;
C-->D;
```
```
%% An example of a sequence diagram
sequenceDiagram
participant Alice
participant Bob
Alice->John: Hello John, how are you?
loop Healthcheck
John->John: Fight against hypochondria
end
Note right of John: Rational thoughts <br/>prevail...
John-->Alice: Great!
John->Bob: How about you?
Bob-->John: Jolly good!
```
```
%% Example of a Gannt diagram
gantt
dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
title Adding GANTT diagram functionality to mermaid
section A section
Completed task :done, des1, 2014-01-06,2014-01-08
Active task :active, des2, 2014-01-09, 3d
Future task : des3, after des2, 5d
Future task2 : des4, after des3, 5d
section Critical tasks
Completed task in the critical line :crit, done, 2014-01-06,24h
Implement parser and jison :crit, done, after des1, 2d
Create tests for parser :crit, active, 3d
Future task in critical line :crit, 5d
Create tests for renderer :2d
Add to mermaid :1d
```
Play with mermaid using this [editor](http://danielmschmidt.github.io/mermaid-demo/) or this [live editor](live_editor). You can also look at mermaid in action using [jsbin](http://jsbin.com/faxunexeku/1/edit?html,output).
## Further reading
* [Usage](http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/usage.html)
* [Flowchart syntax](http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/flowchart.html)
* [Sequence diagram syntax](http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/sequenceDiagram.html)
* [Gantt chart syntax](http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/gantt.html)
* [Mermaid client](http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/mermaidCLI.html)
* [Editor](http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/live_editor)
# Credits
Many thanks to the [d3](http://d3js.org/) and [dagre-d3](https://github.com/cpettitt/dagre-d3) projects for providing
the graphical layout and drawing libraries! Thanks also to the
[js-sequence-diagram](http://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams) project for usage of the grammar for the
sequence diagrams.
*Mermaid was created by Knut Sveidqvist for easier documentation.*
Knut has not done all work by himself, here is the full list of the projects [contributors](https://github.com/knsv/mermaid/graphs/contributors).