# Mermaid JS Plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mermaid-js-plugin/88696
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [May 29, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mermaid-js-plugin/88696 "2018-05-29T21:24:43Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mermaid-js-plugin/88696/17 "2018-09-29T00:31:19Z")

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Simplest would be just to use the graphviz plugin instead

> [@Discourse Graphviz](https://meta.discourse.org/t/graphviz-plugin/97554):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Graphviz provides the ability to add graphs to posts using the DOT language.open_bookInstall Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Features This plugin uses the [Viz.js](https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js) library to render graphs. To embed a graph use [graphviz] [/graphviz] bbcode. Optionally you can define layout engine attributes: [graphviz engine=neato]. If engine is not defined, it defaults to the dot engine…

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