Release a mermaid-lite version?

[sidharthv96]

This will include all the popular diagrams that use the default layout engine.
This will help solve issues like https://github.com/orgs/mermaid-js/discussions/4314#discussioncomment-6348707

This will not have lazy loading, and will only support the basic diagrams.

[aloisklink]

This would be pretty easy to do, if we split up Mermaid into multiple packages (see #4120), e.g. something like:

• @mermaid-js/mermaid-core - Contains all of Mermaid code, except with no diagrams (except maybe error diagram)
• @mermaid-js/mermaid-flowchart - Mermaid flowchart diagram.
• @mermaid-js/mermaid-class - Mermaid class diagrams.
• @mermaid-js/mermaid-... - All of the other diagrams.
• mermaid - Contains @mermaid-js/mermaid-core bundled together with all the mainstream diagrams.

That way, users can easily build their own version of mermaid, and we could easily create a mermaid-lite package too.

See further discussion in #4120 (comment)

[Yokozuna59]

I'm more of a fan of splitting diagrams into separate packages.

How and why we should select specific diagrams to be in that mermaid-lite package, it's not like we should select those diagrams short in size or anything.

[sidharthv96]

We should figure out a way to mostly-automate releases (except entering the TOTP), otherwise, releasing many packages will be a burden.

[nirname]

Would not releasing mermaid-lite become an additional routine too?

[sidharthv96]

mermaid-lite is one extra package, the suggestion was for 5 extra packages.

Automated publishing is a good feature either way.

[nirname]

Is there a particular problem with automated releases?

[aloisklink]

Is there a particular problem with automated releases?

It gets a bit complicated with a mono-repo. How do you handle making git tag, GitHub Releases, and CHANGELOG.md/Release notes, what packages to update, and how much to update them by (e.g. patch/minor/pre-releases?).

Something like https://github.com/changesets/changesets or https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release might be nice to automate this.

Mermaid's current release notes process is pretty bad (see #4637, #3775, and #3022), and that's with only a single mermaid package!

[sidharthv96]

@knsv can switch to changesets?

I've seen that being used by many monorepo based projects quite well.

[Yokozuna59]

maybe related to #2459?