Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
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Details about self-hosting https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw#self-hosting :
We publish a Docker image with the Excalidraw client at excalidraw/excalidraw. You can use it to self-host your own client under your own domain, on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, etc.
docker build -t excalidraw/excalidraw .
docker run --rm -dit --name excalidraw -p 5000:80 excalidraw/excalidraw:latest
The Docker image is free of analytics and other tracking libraries.At the moment, self-hosting your own instance doesn't support sharing or collaboration features.
We are working towards providing a full-fledged solution for self-hosting your own Excalidraw.
Shame self-hosting doesn't have collaboration features yet, but this still looks well worth having.
@jdaviescoates said in Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams:
Shame self-hosting doesn't have collaboration features yet
I note those lines about the self-hosted version not having collaborative features are no longer present on the GitHub repo, and so presumably the the self-hosted version does indeed now have those features!
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We now have tldraw, but just a quick bump on this post for those interested to compare: https://plus.excalidraw.com/excalidraw-plus-vs-excalidraw
@marcusquinn said in Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams:
We now have tldraw,
Given that tldraw wants their ball back, it wold be worth looking at Excalidraw.
The lack of collaboration of features within self-host (unless they have changed that) is a shame but not a blocker to having this on Cloudron (imho).
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@timconsidine Cryptpad has a collab whiteboard built in btw
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Yes, but it (meaning the whiteboard library) is from Russia - can't touch it.
Also bit simplistic, or that's their examples.
Excalidraw is best I have seen so far.@timconsidine Ah, perhaps you can let them know of the better option?
Looking at their docs https://docs.excalidraw.com/docs/@excalidraw/excalidraw/installation#dimensions-of-excalidraw
It's just an npm install, so should be easy to package for Cloudron and if need be swap out an integration that also uses an npm install by changing the target name in the code, like Cryptpad if they're not interested in a switch. -
The library is also usable in nextcloud:
https://github.com/nextcloud/whiteboard/blob/main/README.mdI use it (not in cloudron) with a simple docker-compose:
services: whiteboard: image: ghcr.io/nextcloud-releases/whiteboard restart: always # ports: # - 3002:3002 environment: - NEXTCLOUD_URL=https://your.nextcloud.url - JWT_SECRET_KEY=KEYsome-strong-one
