[HN Gopher] Show HN: Fanfa - Interactive and animated Mermaid di...
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       Show HN: Fanfa - Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams
        
       Author : bairess
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2025-12-04 13:16 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (fanfa.dev)
        
       | 2muchcoffeeman wrote:
       | Can't tell from that link. Is there a better layout engine?
        
       | fwip wrote:
       | Is there a way to control the mechanics of the animation? I poked
       | around a bit and didn't see a way to configure what was sent down
       | the arrows or how often - just some theming options.
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       | For example, if you're visualizing a user flow, you might want
       | rules about when new "objects" are sent down the pipe (example
       | node rule: wait until received one item from each input), or how
       | fast they travel, etc.
        
       | yakbarber wrote:
       | love it!
        
       | mal10c wrote:
       | I don't understand how to use this, but it does touch on an
       | interesting topic. I want to create interactive and animated
       | diagrams. I normally use either Draw.io or plantuml. My goal is
       | to better teach folks about the systems I'm building, through
       | better visualizations. Something like IcePanel (which is way too
       | expensive) sort of shows flows, but I'd like to have full
       | control. Does this tool claim to support something like that? If
       | not, are there options out there that I don't know about?
        
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