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    • girish
      girish Staff last edited by

      https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw

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      • girish
        girish Staff last edited by

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

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        • micmc
          micmc @girish last edited by

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


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          • ruihildt
            ruihildt @micmc last edited by ruihildt

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

            I use both, tbh.

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            • jdaviescoates
              jdaviescoates @girish last edited by

              @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? 🙂

              I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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              • girish
                girish Staff @jdaviescoates last edited by

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

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                • yusf
                  yusf last edited by

                  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 Wellâ„¢.

                  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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                  • girish
                    girish Staff last edited by

                    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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                    • infogulch
                      infogulch last edited by

                      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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                        LoudLemur @girish last edited by

                        @girish Well done finding this! The demo instance is very responsive and not unpleasant to use.
                        https://excalidraw.com/

                        I hope we can support this on Cloudron.

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                        • jdaviescoates
                          jdaviescoates last edited by

                          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.

                          I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                          • avatar1024
                            avatar1024 last edited by avatar1024

                            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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                            • jdaviescoates
                              jdaviescoates @avatar1024 last edited by

                              @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_whiteboard

                              Not this one:
                              https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/whiteboard

                              I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                              • avatar1024
                                avatar1024 @jdaviescoates last edited by

                                @jdaviescoates indeed, using the integrated whiteboard. I think the other app been depreciated.

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                                • marcusquinn
                                  marcusquinn last edited by

                                  This does look good, and probably evolved since first posted. Worth another look?

                                  • https://excalidraw.com/
                                  • https://libraries.excalidraw.com/
                                  • https://plus.excalidraw.com/excalidraw-plus-vs-excalidraw

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                                  • marcusquinn
                                    marcusquinn last edited by

                                    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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                                    • jdaviescoates
                                      jdaviescoates @marcusquinn last edited by

                                      @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?

                                      I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                                      • marcusquinn
                                        marcusquinn @jdaviescoates last edited by

                                        @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
                                          jdaviescoates @jdaviescoates last edited by jdaviescoates

                                          @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!

                                          I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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