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Excalidraw (self-hosted)

A self-hosted instance of the popular hand-drawn-style whiteboard tool for sketching diagrams, wireframes, and quick collaborative drawings.

Target: Any Docker hostwhiteboarddiagramsself-hostedOfficial homepage ↗Official docs ↗
This guide is synthesized from Excalidraw (self-hosted)'s own official documentation, linked above — always cross-check exact package/version names there before running these commands on a production server, since distro and project versions move over time.

  1. 1Run the official Docker image

    Excalidraw's core drawing app runs as a single static container.

    docker run -d --name excalidraw -p 8084:80 --restart unless-stopped excalidraw/excalidraw:latest

  2. 2Open it in a browser

    http://your-server-ip:8084

  3. 3(Optional) add real-time collaboration

    The public excalidraw.com uses a separate room/collaboration backend; self-hosting live multi-user sync requires additionally running excalidraw-room, a small companion WebSocket server.

    excalidraw-room on GitHub ↗