Feature Request: Mermaid Support

[startakovsky]

This issue was never addressed or triaged. I am curious whether there is an opportunity to work on this feature. It would be empowering to be able to nimbly modify mermaid diagrams within the markdown cells.

[startakovsky]

Here is a long list of mermaid integrations, and it renders in GitHub markdown for example.... something like

sequenceDiagram
    Alice->>John: Hello John, how are you?
    John-->>Alice: Great!
    Alice-)John: See you later!

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[jtpio]

Thanks @startakovsky.

Note there is a PR in JupyterLab that will add support for Mermaid: jupyterlab/jupyterlab#14102

When it gets merged (likely soon for JupyterLab 4.1), then it should work in Notebook 7 out of the box as well.

[startakovsky]

Yeah!!! Awesome! I will hang tight.

[startakovsky]

Actually, since that PR has been opened nearly 6 months ago, I will be using this frontend extension to handle rendering mermaid markdown.

[RRosio]

Once @bollwyvl's PR in Jupyterlab gets merged in, this will go into Notebook 7.

[jtpio]

FYI @startakovsky this is now available in the 7.1.0a0 pre-release: https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/releases/tag/v7.1.0a0