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by dcsan 1063 days ago
mermaid is mostly client side rendered in JS, so it's surprising it doesn't have a very well fleshed out API to handle interactivity. Also it's a pain to render to PNGs, you need a full headless browser/puppeteer to run mermaid-cli.

adding links + tooltips: https://jsfiddle.net/s37cjoau/3/

I did an eval of some other options for more dynamic apps including react-flow, cytoscapeJS etc. https://github.com/dcsan/autoapps/issues/1