priyavkaneria/excalidraw-workspace

Excalidraw Workspace is a small, self hosted tool for keeping many drawing pages organized by project, built on top of the popular Excalidraw whiteboard app. Instead of a single canvas, it gives you a sidebar where you can create projects, add pages inside them, rename or delete pages, and drag them into whatever order you like. Each page remembers its drawing, any embedded images, and where you last zoomed and scrolled, all stored on your own server rather than a third party service. The project is meant to be easy to run on your own computer or a small server. For trying it out locally, it uses SQLite and needs only a recent version of Node.js, a copy of an environment file, and a few install and build steps before it starts on localhost. For a more permanent setup on a rented server, it ships a Docker Compose file that uses PostgreSQL instead, and the README recommends putting the app behind HTTPS using a tool like Caddy or Nginx before making it public. To keep things fast while drawing, the app queues save requests so a burst of quick changes does not flood the server, and it uploads each image only once instead of resending it with every save. Login uses a single shared password rather than individual accounts, protected by a long lived, secure cookie, and the app limits how many login attempts and general requests can come from one address in a given time window, though the README is clear this is not a substitute for proper protection against bigger attacks. Switching between SQLite and PostgreSQL later means exporting and reimporting your data rather than a one click change. The project is released under the MIT license.