AlexanderGrooff

    AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii

    Render Mermaid graphs inside your terminal

    cli
    Go
    MIT
    1.6K stars
    77 forks
    6 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 5, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 58 days ago, with 20 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #30 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 1, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Render Mermaid diagrams as ASCII or Unicode art directly in the terminal or via a web interface.
    • Enables visualization of Mermaid graphs and sequence diagrams without a GUI, supporting labeled edges and customizable spacing.
    • Use for quickly previewing flowcharts and graphs in terminal-based development or CI environments.
    • Use for generating sequence diagrams to visualize message flows between participants in text-based communication logs.
    • Use for embedding Mermaid diagram rendering in Dockerized workflows or scripts where graphical interfaces are unavailable.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present

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    From the README

    You can render graphs directly from the command line or start a web interface to render them interactively.

    Excerpt from the AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    77+6

    Open issues

    25+1

    Compared with peers in CLI

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