excalidraw-cli

excalidraw-cli

a excalidraw cli that gives you easeier and better controler over a locally excalidraw instance

Install

1. You will need to install go on your machine: https://go.dev/doc/install
2. Setup GOPATH

Add the following to your shell config

export PATH=${PATH}:$HOME/go/bin

More information: https://go.dev/wiki/GOPATH#gopath-variable

1. Install the binary

go install github.com/epicseven-cup/excalidraw-cli@latest 

1. Make sure you have a supported container engine installed and setup. (e.g. podman, docker...)

There could be delays between the Goproxy and GitHub binarys, you can use the direct setup

GOPROXY=direct go install github.com/epicseven-cup/excalidraw-cli@latest

How to use

 excalidraw-cli -h

Example

Starts the excalidraw docker container, you can access it on localhost:5000

excalidraw-cli -start