excali

Private self-hosted Excalidraw with Bun 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 a Caddy auth or similar solutions.

GPT 5.5 generated

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 3000:3000 -v "$PWD/excali-box-data:/data" excali

This will make the data persistent in the excali-box-data folder in the current directory, the site will be available at localhost:3000.

By default, this image binds to localhost. To expose it on all interfaces, set HOST=0.0.0.0:

docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 -v "$PWD/excali-box-data:/data" -e HOST=0.0.0.0 excali