“Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques”

Ashley Peacock

“Pragmatic Express” is an interesting imprint for this, but I suppose it tracks – this is a short book that mostly just introduces Mermaid as a concept, as well as going through a couple use-cases of diagramming in general. I did wind up writing some Mermaid diagrams as I was reading through the book, as it lined up well with some documentation I needed to write. I was a little tempted to figure out a way to inject Mermaid into this site when I saw that it has Sankey diagrams, but decided against it as I don’t actually do the kind of writing that would necessitate those. Still, would’ve been fun!

Overall, a useful introduction to a programming tool. Felt like it needed another editing pass, but it’s a good start, after which you can go to the actual Mermaid docs instead. If you’re a programmer, check it out.1