A self-hosted dashboard and organizer for Excalidraw with live collaboration features.
Persistent storage for all your drawings
Real time collaboration
Search your drawings
Drag and drop drawings into collections
Export/import your drawings and databases for backup
See release notes for a specific release.
Caution
NOT for production use. This is just a side project (and also the first release), and it likely contains some bugs. DO NOT open ports to the internet (e.g. CORS is set to allow all)
# Download docker-compose.prod.yml
curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash/refs/heads/main/docker-compose.prod.yml
# Pull images
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml pull
# Run container
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d
# Access the frontend at localhost:6767# Clone the repository (recommended)
git clone [email protected]:ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash.git
# or, clone with HTTPS
# git clone https://github.com/ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash.git
docker compose build
docker compose up -d
# Access the frontend at localhost:6767# Clone the repository (recommended)
git clone [email protected]:ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash.git
# or, clone with HTTPS
# git clone https://github.com/ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash.gitcd ExcaliDash/frontend
npm install
# Copy environment file and customize if needed
cp .env.example .env
npm run devcd ExcaliDash/backend
npm install
# Copy environment file and customize if needed
cp .env.example .env
# Generate Prisma client and setup database
npx prisma generate
npx prisma db push
npm run devExcaliDash/
├── backend/ # Node.js + Express + Prisma
│ ├── src/
│ │ └── index.ts # Main server file
│ ├── prisma/
│ │ ├── schema.prisma # Database schema
│ │ └── dev.db # SQLite database
│ └── package.json
├── frontend/ # React + TypeScript + Vite
│ ├── src/
│ │ ├── components/ # React components
│ │ ├── pages/ # Page components
│ │ ├── hooks/ # Custom hooks
│ │ └── api/ # API client
│ └── package.json
└── README.md