Mermaid diagramming

Mermaid is a software to generate diagrams from text based descriptions:

graph TB;
    Mermaid--> Software & Mythical-Creature
    Software--> Data
    Mythical-Creature--> Fantasy
    Fantasy--> Data

This diagram can be created with this text:

graph TB;
    Mermaid--> Software & Mythical-Creature
    Software--> Data
    Mythical-Creature--> Fantasy
    Fantasy--> Data

Install with npm

npm install -g @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

Test in console

cat << EOF  | mmdc --input - -o output.png
graph TB;
    Mermaid--> Software & Mythical-Creature
    Software--> Data
    Mythical-Creature--> Fantasy
    Fantasy--> Data
EOF