Excalidraw Vscode Codespace Template

A quick template to selfhost Excalidraw via live sharing or GitHub Codespace

Feature

• out-of-box draw support
• live share via VSCode live share or GitHub codespace e.g.
• self host?

Quick Start

1. Fork template in github codespace
2. Install suggested extension (recommended via ./.vscode/extension.json)
3. Paint something...
   
4. Share the codespace link to image(.svg or .png)

Adding libraries

1. Download libraries from official and save to libraries/
2. In canvas, click the library on the top right cornor
3. Navigate to the three dot icon near the Browse Libraries
4. Click Open and select files under libraries/
5. Repeat step 4 multiple times to built your own library
6. Click the Save to... and save to static/

Now Excalidraw Library will shows up every time in the canvas.

Credit

Library icons from Excalidraw Libraries:

• GCP icons by @Clément Bosc
• AWS icons by @Anna Pastushko
• Data Viz icons by @dbs-sticky