hi this true! i personally typically write my diagram or add nodes in a text editor prior to customizing but I do realize that many would prefer to be able to do everything in the gui so I will start adding features to add nodes and initialize the diagram in the gui!
Yes that's essentially my thoughts though perhaps a later feature would be to support the tool customizing d2 files as well!
I also think another part about starting with supporting mermaid syntax is that the AI coding agents seem to emphasize mermaid in particular [1] so if they are writing in that syntax anyways I feel it will be even more the norm.
Thanks for sharing. One of the very fun parts of posting this for me was seeing how much bigger this niche was than I thought haha. D2 seems great and super featureful!
Thanks for the comment! I will look into this since I certainly think the ideal scenario would be the core mermaid project supporting customizations in their engine. I imagine that before that I would have to refine the project further after which it would be interesting to see if they would be open to supporting it!
For the syntax I aim to support mermaid's syntax and any modifications the tool makes are saved as comments so that the files remain backwards compatible with the original mermaid engine!
The main advantage of this project is it enables customizations of the layout and visual preferences.
So using LLMs to write the mermaid code itself still works perfectly fine the mermaid code can then directly be passed in as input and then edited with this tool.
Thanks, let me know how it goes! There's certainly lots of improvements to be made to the layout engine and polishing for the UI so happy to incorporate any feedback!
I can look into this further but at a glance I don't see something for declarative diagramming syntax. I will say the name is fantastic! One of the great things about making this thread for me was learning about all the different tools people are using!
Hi as of now I haven't added that feature so the current way would be to edit the .mmd text.
However I think you are right that would be a good feature to add.
For collapsing downstream nodes I think it would make sense with the request the someone else made in this thread for animations. From what I see it should certainly be possible to implement at some point!