Summary

It is a wrap for this chapter. You now have mastered Gantt chart generation using Mermaid. You learned about the basics: what is a Gantt chart, what its various components are, and how it is represented graphically. You learned about the syntax of a Gantt chart and how to declare your sections and task definitions. You learned how to add tags such as active, crit, milestone, or done to a task. You can now use different ways to define a timeline for a task, using actual start or end dates or making it dependent on another task completions. You were exposed to the optional parameters with which you can set the title and I/O date formats. You can now control the current date marker and its styling. You understood the concept of excluding certain dates and days from a timeline, and how to make the end date defined as inclusive in timeline calculations.

You learned the various configuration options available for altering a Gantt chart, such as enabling the top axis, adjusting...