diff --git a/.esbuild/build.ts b/.esbuild/build.ts
index 2735f1f91..23decb471 100644
--- a/.esbuild/build.ts
+++ b/.esbuild/build.ts
@@ -56,9 +56,7 @@ const handler = (e) => {
 
 const main = async () => {
   await generateLangium();
-  await mkdir('stats').catch(() => {
-    // Ignore error if directory already exists
-  });
+  await mkdir('stats', {recursive: true});
   const packageNames = Object.keys(packageOptions) as (keyof typeof packageOptions)[];
   // it should build `parser` before `mermaid` because it's a dependency
   for (const pkg of packageNames) {
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceDb.ts b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceDb.ts
index 9d525723a..69ddeaf18 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceDb.ts
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sequence/sequenceDb.ts
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ export const setWrap = function (wrapSetting?: boolean) {
 };
 
 const extractWrap = (text?: string): { cleanedText?: string; wrap?: boolean } => {
-  if (!text) {
+  if (text === undefined) {
     return {};
   }
   text = text.trim();