excalidraw-box/README.md

excali-box

Private self-hosted Excalidraw with Bun, Caddy, and SQLite.

This is bare wrapper around the excalidraw packages that adds autosave and disk-persistence. No auth to keep things simple - you either run in a private network or put it behind Caddy auth or similar solutions.

GPT 5.5 generated

Pull from GHCR and run

Images are published to:

ghcr.io/ruinivist/excalidraw-box:<version>

docker pull ghcr.io/ruinivist/excalidraw-box:latest
docker run --rm -p 127.0.0.1:3000:80 -v "$PWD/excali-box-data:/data" ghcr.io/ruinivist/excalidraw-box:latest

Run locally

bun install
bun run dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

Test

bun run test
bun run typecheck

Build the image

docker build -t excali .
docker run --rm -p 127.0.0.1:3000:80 -v "$PWD/excali-box-data:/data" excali

This will make the data persistent in the excali-box-data folder in the current directory, with Caddy serving the browser build on localhost:3000