diff --git a/docs/community/newDiagram.md b/docs/community/newDiagram.md
index ba52999f4d..5dd616e668 100644
--- a/docs/community/newDiagram.md
+++ b/docs/community/newDiagram.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 #### Grammar
 
-This would be to define a jison grammar for the new diagram type. That should start with a way to identify that the text in the mermaid tag is a diagram of that type. Create a new folder under diagrams for your new diagram type and a parser folder in it. This leads us to step 2.
+This would be to define a JISON grammar for the new diagram type. That should start with a way to identify that the text in the mermaid tag is a diagram of that type. Create a new folder under diagrams for your new diagram type and a parser folder in it. This leads us to step 2.
 
 For instance:
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Place the renderer in the diagram folder.
 
 ### Step 3: Detection of the new diagram type
 
-The second thing to do is to add the capability to detect the new diagram to type to the detectType in utils.js. The detection should return a key for the new diagram type.
+The second thing to do is to add the capability to detect the new diagram to type to the detectType in `diagram-api/detectType.ts`. The detection should return a key for the new diagram type.
 [This key will be used to as the aria roledescription](#aria-roledescription), so it should be a word that clearly describes the diagram type.
 For example, if your new diagram use a UML deployment diagram, a good key would be "UMLDeploymentDiagram" because assistive technologies such as a screen reader
 would voice that as "U-M-L Deployment diagram." Another good key would be "deploymentDiagram" because that would be voiced as "Deployment Diagram." A bad key would be "deployment" because that would not sufficiently describe the diagram.
diff --git a/docs/config/setup/modules/mermaidAPI.md b/docs/config/setup/modules/mermaidAPI.md
index 330c136dce..1160a5dda5 100644
--- a/docs/config/setup/modules/mermaidAPI.md
+++ b/docs/config/setup/modules/mermaidAPI.md
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ mermaid.initialize(config);
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:669](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L669)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:668](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L668)
 
 ## Functions
 
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Return the last node appended
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:310](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L310)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:309](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L309)
 
 ---
 
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ the cleaned up svgCode
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:256](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L256)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:255](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L255)
 
 ---
 
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ the string with all the user styles
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:185](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L185)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:184](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L184)
 
 ---
 
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ the string with all the user styles
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:233](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L233)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:232](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L232)
 
 ---
 
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ with an enclosing block that has each of the cssClasses followed by !important;
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:169](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L169)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:168](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L168)
 
 ---
 
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ with an enclosing block that has each of the cssClasses followed by !important;
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:155](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L155)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:154](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L154)
 
 ---
 
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ with an enclosing block that has each of the cssClasses followed by !important;
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:126](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L126)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:125](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L125)
 
 ---
 
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Put the svgCode into an iFrame. Return the iFrame code
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:287](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L287)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:286](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L286)
 
 ---
 
@@ -320,4 +320,4 @@ Remove any existing elements from the given document
 
 #### Defined in
 
-[mermaidAPI.ts:360](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L360)
+[mermaidAPI.ts:359](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/blob/master/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts#L359)
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/Diagram.ts b/packages/mermaid/src/Diagram.ts
index 4fb329b28e..13fd3232b5 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/Diagram.ts
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/Diagram.ts
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ import { getDiagram, registerDiagram } from './diagram-api/diagramAPI.js';
 import { detectType, getDiagramLoader } from './diagram-api/detectType.js';
 import { extractFrontMatter } from './diagram-api/frontmatter.js';
 import { UnknownDiagramError } from './errors.js';
-import { DetailedError } from './utils.js';
 import { cleanupComments } from './diagram-api/comments.js';
+import type { DetailedError } from './utils.js';
+import type { DiagramDefinition } from './diagram-api/types.js';
 
 export type ParseErrorFunction = (err: string | DetailedError | unknown, hash?: any) => void;
 
@@ -15,9 +16,11 @@ export type ParseErrorFunction = (err: string | DetailedError | unknown, hash?:
  */
 export class Diagram {
   type = 'graph';
-  parser;
-  renderer;
-  db;
+  parser: DiagramDefinition['parser'];
+  renderer: DiagramDefinition['renderer'];
+  db: DiagramDefinition['db'];
+  private init?: DiagramDefinition['init'];
+
   private detectError?: UnknownDiagramError;
   constructor(public text: string) {
     this.text += '\n';
@@ -32,7 +35,6 @@ export class Diagram {
     log.debug('Type ' + this.type);
     // Setup diagram
     this.db = diagram.db;
-    this.db.clear?.();
     this.renderer = diagram.renderer;
     this.parser = diagram.parser;
     const originalParse = this.parser.parse.bind(this.parser);
@@ -49,10 +51,7 @@ export class Diagram {
       originalParse(cleanupComments(extractFrontMatter(text, this.db)));
 
     this.parser.parser.yy = this.db;
-    if (diagram.init) {
-      diagram.init(cnf);
-      log.info('Initialized diagram ' + this.type, cnf);
-    }
+    this.init = diagram.init;
     this.parse();
   }
 
@@ -61,6 +60,7 @@ export class Diagram {
       throw this.detectError;
     }
     this.db.clear?.();
+    this.init?.(configApi.getConfig());
     this.parser.parse(this.text);
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagram-api/diagramAPI.ts b/packages/mermaid/src/diagram-api/diagramAPI.ts
index 7e89d9cd79..3edd982bb4 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagram-api/diagramAPI.ts
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagram-api/diagramAPI.ts
@@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ export const getDiagram = (name: string): DiagramDefinition => {
   if (name in diagrams) {
     return diagrams[name];
   }
-  throw new Error(`Diagram ${name} not found.`);
+  throw new DiagramNotFoundError(name);
 };
 
 export class DiagramNotFoundError extends Error {
-  constructor(message: string) {
-    super(`Diagram ${message} not found.`);
+  constructor(name: string) {
+    super(`Diagram ${name} not found.`);
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/er/erRenderer.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/er/erRenderer.js
index 63fb056339..b992afd651 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/er/erRenderer.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/er/erRenderer.js
@@ -555,7 +555,6 @@ const drawRelationshipFromLayout = function (svg, rel, g, insert, diagObj) {
 export const draw = function (text, id, _version, diagObj) {
   conf = getConfig().er;
   log.info('Drawing ER diagram');
-  //  diag.db.clear();
   const securityLevel = getConfig().securityLevel;
   // Handle root and Document for when rendering in sandbox mode
   let sandboxElement;
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/elk/flowRenderer-elk.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/elk/flowRenderer-elk.js
index 5ed06723e9..c7bfdf5246 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/elk/flowRenderer-elk.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/elk/flowRenderer-elk.js
@@ -655,14 +655,7 @@ const addMarkersToEdge = function (svgPath, edgeData, diagramType, arrowMarkerAb
  */
 export const getClasses = function (text, diagObj) {
   log.info('Extracting classes');
-  diagObj.db.clear('ver-2');
-  try {
-    // Parse the graph definition
-    diagObj.parse(text);
-    return diagObj.db.getClasses();
-  } catch (e) {
-    return {};
-  }
+  return diagObj.db.getClasses();
 };
 
 const addSubGraphs = function (db) {
@@ -766,14 +759,8 @@ const insertChildren = (nodeArray, parentLookupDb) => {
  */
 
 export const draw = async function (text, id, _version, diagObj) {
-  // Add temporary render element
-  diagObj.db.clear();
   nodeDb = {};
   portPos = {};
-  diagObj.db.setGen('gen-2');
-  // Parse the graph definition
-  diagObj.parser.parse(text);
-
   const renderEl = select('body').append('div').attr('style', 'height:400px').attr('id', 'cy');
   let graph = {
     id: 'root',
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowRenderer-v2.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowRenderer-v2.js
index 23f94942c2..4a3b7a8ce5 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowRenderer-v2.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowRenderer-v2.js
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 import * as graphlib from 'dagre-d3-es/src/graphlib/index.js';
 import { select, curveLinear, selectAll } from 'd3';
-
-import flowDb from './flowDb.js';
 import { getConfig } from '../../config.js';
 import utils from '../../utils.js';
-
 import { render } from '../../dagre-wrapper/index.js';
 import { addHtmlLabel } from 'dagre-d3-es/src/dagre-js/label/add-html-label.js';
 import { log } from '../../logger.js';
@@ -344,15 +341,7 @@ export const addEdges = function (edges, g, diagObj) {
  * @returns {object} ClassDef styles
  */
 export const getClasses = function (text, diagObj) {
-  log.info('Extracting classes');
-  diagObj.db.clear();
-  try {
-    // Parse the graph definition
-    diagObj.parse(text);
-    return diagObj.db.getClasses();
-  } catch (e) {
-    return;
-  }
+  return diagObj.db.getClasses();
 };
 
 /**
@@ -364,10 +353,6 @@ export const getClasses = function (text, diagObj) {
 
 export const draw = async function (text, id, _version, diagObj) {
   log.info('Drawing flowchart');
-  diagObj.db.clear();
-  flowDb.setGen('gen-2');
-  // Parse the graph definition
-  diagObj.parser.parse(text);
 
   // Fetch the default direction, use TD if none was found
   let dir = diagObj.db.getDirection();
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowRenderer.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowRenderer.js
index 4382aa9a44..fc06cacd4d 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowRenderer.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowRenderer.js
@@ -273,15 +273,7 @@ export const addEdges = function (edges, g, diagObj) {
  */
 export const getClasses = function (text, diagObj) {
   log.info('Extracting classes');
-  diagObj.db.clear();
-  try {
-    // Parse the graph definition
-    diagObj.parse(text);
-    return diagObj.db.getClasses();
-  } catch (e) {
-    log.error(e);
-    return {};
-  }
+  return diagObj.db.getClasses();
 };
 
 /**
@@ -294,7 +286,6 @@ export const getClasses = function (text, diagObj) {
  */
 export const draw = function (text, id, _version, diagObj) {
   log.info('Drawing flowchart');
-  diagObj.db.clear();
   const { securityLevel, flowchart: conf } = getConfig();
   let sandboxElement;
   if (securityLevel === 'sandbox') {
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceDiagram.spec.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceDiagram.spec.js
index 8b7d6f8d0e..0b84fbe356 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceDiagram.spec.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceDiagram.spec.js
@@ -172,14 +172,11 @@ describe('more than one sequence diagram', () => {
 
 describe('when parsing a sequenceDiagram', function () {
   beforeEach(function () {
-    // diagram.db = sequenceDb;
-    // diagram.db.clear();
     diagram = new Diagram(`
 sequenceDiagram
 Alice->Bob:Hello Bob, how are you?
 Note right of Bob: Bob thinks
 Bob-->Alice: I am good thanks!`);
-    diagram.db.clear();
   });
   it('should handle a sequenceDiagram definition', async function () {
     const str = `
@@ -1482,8 +1479,6 @@ describe('when checking the bounds in a sequenceDiagram', function () {
   let conf;
   beforeEach(function () {
     mermaidAPI.reset();
-    // diagram.db = sequenceDb;
-    // diagram.db.clear();
     diagram.renderer.bounds.init();
     conf = diagram.db.getConfig();
   });
@@ -1635,7 +1630,6 @@ sequenceDiagram
 Alice->Bob:Hello Bob, how are you?
 Note right of Bob: Bob thinks
 Bob-->Alice: I am good thanks!`);
-    diagram.db.clear();
   });
   ['tspan', 'fo', 'old', undefined].forEach(function (textPlacement) {
     it(`
@@ -2009,8 +2003,6 @@ describe('when rendering a sequenceDiagram with actor mirror activated', () => {
   let conf;
   beforeEach(function () {
     mermaidAPI.reset();
-    // diagram.db = sequenceDb;
-    diagram.db.clear();
     conf = diagram.db.getConfig();
     diagram.renderer.bounds.init();
   });
@@ -2052,12 +2044,8 @@ describe('when rendering a sequenceDiagram with directives', () => {
     mermaidAPI.initialize({ sequence: conf });
   });
 
-  let conf;
   beforeEach(function () {
     mermaidAPI.reset();
-    // diagram.db = sequenceDb;
-    diagram.db.clear();
-    conf = diagram.db.getConfig();
     diagram.renderer.bounds.init();
   });
 
@@ -2069,10 +2057,7 @@ sequenceDiagram
 participant Alice
 `;
     diagram = new Diagram(str);
-
     diagram.renderer.bounds.init();
-    await mermaidAPI.parse(str);
-
     diagram.renderer.draw(str, 'tst', '1.2.3', diagram);
 
     const { bounds, models } = diagram.renderer.bounds.getBounds();
@@ -2093,7 +2078,7 @@ sequenceDiagram
 participant Alice
 `;
 
-    diagram.parse(str);
+    diagram = new Diagram(str);
     diagram.renderer.draw(str, 'tst', '1.2.3', diagram);
 
     const { bounds, models } = diagram.renderer.bounds.getBounds();
@@ -2114,7 +2099,7 @@ Alice->Bob:Hello Bob, how are you?
 Note right of Bob: Bob thinks
 Bob-->Alice: I am good thanks!`;
 
-    await mermaidAPI.parse(str1);
+    diagram = new Diagram(str1);
     diagram.renderer.draw(str1, 'tst', '1.2.3', diagram); // needs to be rendered for the correct value of visibility auto numbers
     expect(diagram.db.showSequenceNumbers()).toBe(true);
 
@@ -2124,7 +2109,7 @@ Alice->Bob:Hello Bob, how are you?
 Note right of Bob: Bob thinks
 Bob-->Alice: I am good thanks!`;
 
-    await mermaidAPI.parse(str2);
+    diagram = new Diagram(str2);
     diagram.renderer.draw(str2, 'tst', '1.2.3', diagram);
     expect(diagram.db.showSequenceNumbers()).toBe(false);
   });
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceRenderer.ts b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceRenderer.ts
index 4f8b1889bb..f6fde5001d 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceRenderer.ts
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceRenderer.ts
@@ -749,9 +749,6 @@ function adjustCreatedDestroyedData(
 export const draw = function (_text: string, id: string, _version: string, diagObj: Diagram) {
   const { securityLevel, sequence } = configApi.getConfig();
   conf = sequence;
-  diagObj.db.clear();
-  // Parse the graph definition
-  diagObj.parser.parse(_text);
   // Handle root and Document for when rendering in sandbox mode
   let sandboxElement;
   if (securityLevel === 'sandbox') {
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/state/stateRenderer-v2.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/state/stateRenderer-v2.js
index 592cb43ccd..990048ec7f 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/state/stateRenderer-v2.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/state/stateRenderer-v2.js
@@ -84,17 +84,7 @@ export const setConf = function (cnf) {
  * @returns {object} ClassDef styles (a Map with keys = strings, values = )
  */
 export const getClasses = function (text, diagramObj) {
-  log.trace('Extracting classes');
-  diagramObj.db.clear();
-  try {
-    // Parse the graph definition
-    diagramObj.parser.parse(text);
-    // must run extract() to turn the parsed statements into states, relationships, classes, etc.
-    diagramObj.db.extract(diagramObj.db.getRootDocV2());
-    return diagramObj.db.getClasses();
-  } catch (e) {
-    return e;
-  }
+  return diagramObj.db.getClasses();
 };
 
 /**
@@ -384,7 +374,6 @@ const getDir = (parsedItem, defaultDir = DEFAULT_NESTED_DOC_DIR) => {
  */
 export const draw = async function (text, id, _version, diag) {
   log.info('Drawing state diagram (v2)', id);
-  // diag.sb.clear();
   nodeDb = {};
   // Fetch the default direction, use TD if none was found
   let dir = diag.db.getDirection();
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/docs/community/newDiagram.md b/packages/mermaid/src/docs/community/newDiagram.md
index 3393396ee9..7fb47dd302 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/docs/community/newDiagram.md
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/docs/community/newDiagram.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 #### Grammar
 
-This would be to define a jison grammar for the new diagram type. That should start with a way to identify that the text in the mermaid tag is a diagram of that type. Create a new folder under diagrams for your new diagram type and a parser folder in it. This leads us to step 2.
+This would be to define a JISON grammar for the new diagram type. That should start with a way to identify that the text in the mermaid tag is a diagram of that type. Create a new folder under diagrams for your new diagram type and a parser folder in it. This leads us to step 2.
 
 For instance:
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Place the renderer in the diagram folder.
 
 ### Step 3: Detection of the new diagram type
 
-The second thing to do is to add the capability to detect the new diagram to type to the detectType in utils.js. The detection should return a key for the new diagram type.
+The second thing to do is to add the capability to detect the new diagram to type to the detectType in `diagram-api/detectType.ts`. The detection should return a key for the new diagram type.
 [This key will be used to as the aria roledescription](#aria-roledescription), so it should be a word that clearly describes the diagram type.
 For example, if your new diagram use a UML deployment diagram, a good key would be "UMLDeploymentDiagram" because assistive technologies such as a screen reader
 would voice that as "U-M-L Deployment diagram." Another good key would be "deploymentDiagram" because that would be voiced as "Deployment Diagram." A bad key would be "deployment" because that would not sufficiently describe the diagram.
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts b/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts
index 70b314daa5..f8a36f88e6 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/mermaidAPI.ts
@@ -108,8 +108,7 @@ export interface RenderResult {
 async function parse(text: string, parseOptions?: ParseOptions): Promise<boolean> {
   addDiagrams();
   try {
-    const diagram = await getDiagramFromText(text);
-    diagram.parse();
+    await getDiagramFromText(text);
   } catch (error) {
     if (parseOptions?.suppressErrors) {
       return false;