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The Official Guide to Mermaid.js

You're reading from   The Official Guide to Mermaid.js Create complex diagrams and beautiful flowcharts easily using text and code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078023
Length 492 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Knut Sveidqvist Knut Sveidqvist
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Ashish Jain Ashish Jain
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Mermaid
2. Chapter 1: The Art of Documentation with Mermaid FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: How to Use Mermaid 4. Chapter 3: Mermaid Versions and Using the Live Editor 5. Chapter 4: Modifying Configurations with or without Directives 6. Chapter 5: Changing Themes and Making Mermaid Look Good 7. Section 2: The Most Popular Diagrams
8. Chapter 6: Using Flowcharts 9. Chapter 7: Creating Sequence Diagrams 10. Chapter 8: Rendering Class Diagrams 11. Chapter 9: Illustrating Data with Pie Charts and Understanding Requirement Diagrams 12. Section 3: Powerful Diagrams for the Advanced User
13. Chapter 10: Demonstrating Connections Using Entity Relationship Diagrams 14. Chapter 11: Representing System Behavior with State Diagrams 15. Chapter 12: Visualizing Your Project Schedule with Gantt Chart 16. Chapter 13: Presenting User Behavior with User Journey Diagrams 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix :Configuration Options

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And that's a wrap for this chapter! You have mastered how to generate entity-relationship diagrams using Mermaid. First, you learned about the basics of what an entity-relationship diagram is, what its various components are, and how they are represented. Then, you learned about the syntax of defining an ER diagram. You know the two different ways you can declare your entities. After that, you learned how to add attributes to an entity. You explored the different types of relationships between entities and the concept of cardinalities so that you can establish one-to-one, many-to-one, and many-to-many relationships. You know that relationships in ER diagrams can be either identifying or non-identifying, and that they are represented by solid and dashed lines, respectively. Finally, you explored the different theme variables you can use to make your ER diagrams more beautiful. You also learned how to change the main background, text color, label background, layout, and...

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