GitHub will natively support Mermaid diagrams

Mermaid is an incredibly popular Markdown-inspired syntax used to visualize workflows, software architecture, and abstract concepts in documentation. Support for displaying Mermaid diagrams has appeared on GitHub’s top list of feature requests since 2015. In its absence, many developers simply added screenshots to their Markdown. Today, we’re excited to add native support for Mermaid wherever Markdown is supported (e.g., issues, repositories, discussions, gists). Read more…