Just some fun with PowerShell to output Mermaid graphs
Usage
# reset nodelist between runs
$global:nodelist = $null
$RootNode = node RootNode
node ChildNode RootNode
node AnotherNode $RootNode
node AnotherNode -child GrandChildNode
node GrandChildNode $RootNode
node OtherBranch -child GrandChildNode
$nodelist | ft
name rel id Child Parent
---- --- -- ----- ------
RootNode {parentList, childList} abbdd589-5466-4edc-ac6e-a2edbf67cfdf {ChildNode, AnotherNode, GrandChildNode}
ChildNode {parentList, childList} c49a40a1-8dd3-4eff-8653-c14889b8e900 RootNode
AnotherNode {parentList, childList} 18fae758-8f87-403a-a5f7-96e1f0316fc4 GrandChildNode RootNode
GrandChildNode {parentList, childList} 28c239d3-18a8-43be-8e65-bc626eb98411 {AnotherNode, RootNode, OtherBranch}
OtherBranch {parentList, childList} a0bc8bf1-1849-4236-8368-a3aec15159d9 GrandChildNode
Output
Plot all children of the node
plotchild $RootNode -Recurse
Plot all parent nodes of the $node
plotparent (node GrandChildNode) -Recurse
Plot all children of the $node but use id as the node name, eg if the node names have spaces and/or non \W chars
plotchild_byid (node RootNode) -Recurse
Plot everything but beware of duplicates
$nodelist | % { plotchild $_}