PlantUML Support

[atifsyedali]

Would be really nice to have PlantUML supported. This along with DOT is the default diagramming supported in all Markdown editors in Jetbrains IDEs like IDEA and Webstorm.

[sinedied]

That would be nice, but it would increase complexity of the system a lot I think.

Currently Mermaid graphs are generated by the browser directly, and the server is lightweight.
To make such an integration, you would need a new API to generate the graphs server-side, that needs to communicate with the underlying graphviz binary.

The problem is how to install the graphviz binary, as I could not find any native wrappers for NodeJS allowing to install it along npm dependencies 😞 And I don't think requiring all users to install graphviz manually is a good idea.

[sinedied]

In the meantime, you can always use http://www.gravizo.com if you have online access, that will do the job :)

[atifsyedali]

Just came across this: https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js

[atifsyedali]

Some more links:

• http://plantuml.com/vizjs
• https://github.com/markushedvall/plantuml-encoder (replace the puml with a URL)
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-plantuml