Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

[girish]

https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw

[girish]

Currently, it's missing some important features like login - https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/1071 but looks great otherwise.

[micmc]

@girish That is pretty cool indeed, however far from the powerful and features rich draw.io

[ruihildt]

@micmc Usecase is different, Excalidraw is simpler and friendlier, in both usage and output.

I use both, tbh.

[jdaviescoates]

@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?

[girish]

@jdaviescoates yes, indeed. I think even things like draw.io will benefit from the same proxy auth.

[yusf]

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.

[girish]

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.