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Dev tools · April 25, 2025

Mermaid Open Editor 2.0

A new feature from Mermaid Chart allows users to easily share text-based diagrams with others. What is Mermaid Chart? It’s an extension of open source diagramming tool Mermaid: https://mermaid.js.org. I created Mermaid to make diagramming more fun again. Mermaid Chart helps to bring this to life. With Mermaid Chart, users can easily generate a wide range of charts – flowcharts and pie charts to sequencing diagrams, user journeys, and Gantt – from simple, markdown-style code. Our new Teams feature means these users can securely share diagrams with others, opening up a clear path for…

Mermaid Open Editor 2.0 launched on April 25, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

Simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools. Open source Visio Alternative. Commonly used for explaining your code! Mermaid is a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.

In the maker’s words, at launch

A new feature from Mermaid Chart allows users to easily share text-based diagrams with others. What is Mermaid Chart? It’s an extension of open source diagramming tool Mermaid: https://mermaid.js.org. I created Mermaid to make diagramming more fun again. Mermaid Chart helps to bring this to life. With…

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