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Flora: A Diagram Library Built with (and for) AI

Flora is a fault-tolerant, Mermaid-compatible diagram library that renders polished, interactive SVGs from imperfect input. Built in 10 days with heavy AI assistance (particularly Claude Fable), it skips malformed lines instead of crashing, offers strict mode, interactive canvases, and supports JS/React/Python/Markdown integrations.

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Flora: A Diagram Library Built with (and for) AI
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  • Flora uses Mermaid syntax but produces more polished, interactive diagrams with zoom, pan, and lineage tracing.
  • Fault-tolerant parser skips broken lines and reports diagnostics instead of failing entirely.
  • The entire project was built in 10 days, with half the features shipped in the last 48 hours via AI assistance.
  • Available via npm, CDN (web component), React, Python, Markdown plugin, and hosted playground.

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