Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

[timconsidine]

@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).

[robi]

@timconsidine Cryptpad has a collab whiteboard built in btw

[timconsidine]

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.

[robi]

@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.

[chetbaker]

Just pointing out I would also be interested in seeing developments on Cloudron side to hopefully self-host this in case it's possible.

[samuk]

I'd use this

[josephcosta]

The library is also usable in nextcloud:
https://github.com/nextcloud/whiteboard/blob/main/README.md

I 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