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Which Tools Support Mermaid Natively? A Checked List
GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Obsidian, VS Code and Azure DevOps render Mermaid natively. Confluence, Slack and Google Docs do not. Every row checked against the vendor's own documentation.
Beauty Diagram Blog9 min readAuto-Generate Architecture Diagrams in CI from Your Spec Files
Your architecture diagram is wrong because it's a hand-maintained copy of the system. Here's how to make it a projection instead — generated from files CI already keeps honest.
Beauty Diagram Blog12 min readDiagrams as Code in 2026: Mermaid, PlantUML, D2, Excalidraw — When to Use What
Four diagrams-as-code tools are worth learning in 2026. Each is best at a different job — a comparison, plus the honest tradeoffs nobody puts on the marketing page.
Beauty Diagram Blog12 min readConvert draw.io Files to Production-Ready SVG (Without the Default Look)
draw.io's Export → SVG dialog ships a 400 KB blob of embedded fonts and foreign-object text. The path from cleaner native exports to treating the .drawio XML as source and re-rendering it.
Beauty Diagram Blog12 min readAdding Beautiful Diagrams to Your Docusaurus / VitePress Site
Enabling Mermaid in Docusaurus or VitePress takes ten minutes. Making the diagrams stop looking generic takes another thirty. The whole path — plugin config, theming, and when to swap the renderer.
Beauty Diagram Blog9 min read10 Mermaid Tricks I Wish I'd Known Before Drawing 200 Diagrams
Most Mermaid users plateau after the basics. These 10 tricks — subgraph zones, classDef inheritance, edge label styling, init blocks — pay back every time you open a fenced mermaid block.
Beauty Diagram Blog9 min readHow to Beautify and Theme Mermaid Diagrams in Obsidian & VS Code
The default pastel preview undermines the note you're polishing. Two plugins put a themed Mermaid renderer in the same pane — no round-trip to a web tool. Setup for both, plus the per-file options.
Beauty Diagram Blog9 min readBeautify Every Diagram in Your Markdown Docs with One Command
A docs repo has dozens of Mermaid blocks, half on the default pastel theme, some broken. Two commands plus a CI gate render them all to one consistent theme — and keep them that way.
Beauty Diagram Blog10 min readGenerate Mermaid from Plain English with AI (CLI Walkthrough)
Most Mermaid friction isn't writing flowcharts — it's remembering syntax for sequence, ER, state, and class diagrams you draw twice a year. Five prompts, five diagrams, one CLI pipe.
Beauty Diagram Blog10 min readMermaid vs PlantUML in 2026: Which to Pick for Engineering Docs
Mermaid and PlantUML solve the same problem with different trade-offs. Here's a 2026 comparison on syntax, layout quality, diagram coverage, and ecosystem — with a decision rule at the end.
Beauty Diagram Blog9 min readDoes Notion Support Mermaid? Yes — 4 Ways to Embed and Theme It
Yes — Notion renders Mermaid natively in code blocks, but with one fixed theme and no overrides. Compare the 4 ways to embed and theme Mermaid in Notion in 2026.
Beauty Diagram Blog9 min readWhy Your GitHub README Diagrams Look Amateur (and the 4 Fixes That Take 10 Minutes)
Most README diagrams suffer from the same four defaults. Here's how to fix all of them in under ten minutes — without redrawing anything.
Beauty Diagram Blog2 min readHow to Render Mermaid Diagrams as SVG (and Stop Looking Like Every Other README)
A practical guide to rendering Mermaid as SVG — from the official CLI to custom themes, font fixes, dark mode, and the fastest path when you don't want to tune anything.
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