ExcaliDash v0.1.5

A self-hosted dashboard and organizer for Excalidraw with live collaboration features.

Screenshots

Table of Contents

• Screenshots
• Features
• Upgrading
• Installation
  • Docker Hub (Recommended)
  • Docker Build
• Development
  • Clone the Repository
  • Frontend
  • Backend
  • Project Structure
• Credits

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

Upgrading

See release notes for a specific release.

Installation

Caution

NOT for production use. While attempts have been made at hardening (XSS/dompurify, CORS, rate-limiting, sanitization) have been made, they are inadequate for public deployment. Do not expose any ports. Currently lacking CSRF.

Caution

ExcaliDash is in BETA. Please backup your data regularly (e.g. with cron).

Docker Hub (Recommended)

Install Docker

# 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

Docker Build

Install Docker

# Clone the repository (recommended)
git clone git@github.com: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

Development

Clone the Repository

# Clone the repository (recommended)
git clone git@github.com:ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash.git

# or, clone with HTTPS
# git clone https://github.com/ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash.git

Frontend

cd ExcaliDash/frontend
npm install

# Copy environment file and customize if needed
cp .env.example .env

npm run dev

Backend

cd 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 dev

Project Structure

ExcaliDash/
├── 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

Credits

• Example designs from:
  • https://github.com/Prakash-sa/system-design-ultimatum/tree/main
  • https://github.com/kitsteam/excalidraw-examples/tree/main
• The Amazing work of Excalidraw developers