Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
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Currently, it's missing some important features like login - https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/1071 but looks great otherwise.
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@girish said in Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams:
Currently, it's missing some important features like login - https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/1071 but looks great otherwise.
I guess the new auth thing in 6.0 fixes that issue?
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@jdaviescoates yes, indeed. I think even things like draw.io will benefit from the same proxy auth.
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This is a worthy tool! Clean and quite intuitive. As it's not as overwhelming as draw.io can be it feels even more fitting a Cloudron Unix-like philosophy of Doing One Thing Well
.It has OpenCollective funding as well, ~ $5,546 anually.
Coupled with optional auth it will be a good start for building a remote work app stack fully on Cloudron.
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I was looking into how this works without having any server component. It seem that is uses Google Firebase/Firestone internally - https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/pull/2188 . So, it won't exactly be completely selfhosted. Even though it seems everything is e2e encrypted.
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I'd really like to see this too, but it appears that some work still needs to be done to factor out external dependencies / incidental implementation details from the current code.
This is the self-host umbrella issue, which has had some recent activity: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/1772
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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.
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Would be great to see the self-hosted version gain the collaboration feature soon and then get it on Cloudron! So far it seems one of the best Free Software whiteboard / canvas tool out there in terms of simplicity and feel. So far I'm not finding the Nexctloud whiteboard tool very convenient, intuitive or pretty.
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@avatar1024 said in Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams:
So far I'm not finding the Nexctloud whiteboard tool very convenient, intuitive or pretty.
Presumably you're trying the new Whiteboard Integration app and not the Whiteboard app?
This one:
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/integration_whiteboardNot this one:
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@jdaviescoates indeed, using the integrated whiteboard. I think the other app been depreciated.
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This does look good, and probably evolved since first posted. Worth another look?
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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
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@marcusquinn said in Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams:
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
What is not at all clear to me is whether or not Excalidraw Plus is self-hostable or not - have you managed to work that out?
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@jdaviescoates I can't see a repo for it. Kinda typical of the FOSS as marketing model, which is fair enough, choices of features to hold back might be questionable though.
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@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!
