VersaWhiteboard/README.md

whiteboard

This is a lightweight NodeJS collaborative Whiteboard witch can easily be customized...

Some Features

• Showing remote user cursors while drawing
• Undo function for each user
• Drag & Drop Images to Whiteboard from PC and Browsers
• Copy & Paste Images from Clipboard
• Resize, Move & Draw Images to Canvas or Background
• Save Whiteboard to Image and JSON
• Draw angle lines by pressing "shift" while drawing (with line tool)
• Draw square by pressing "shift" while drawing (with rectangle tool)

Install the App

You can run this app with and without docker

Without Docker

1. install the latest NodeJs
2. Clone the app
3. Run npm i inside the folder
4. Run node server.js
5. Surf to http://YOURIP:8080

With Docker

1. docker run -d -p 8080:8080 rofl256/whiteboard
2. Surf to http://YOURIP:8080

API

Call your site with GET parameters to change the WhiteboardID or the Username

http://YOURIP:8080?whiteboardid=MYID&username=MYNAME

• whiteboardid => All people with the same ID are drawing on the same board
• username => The name witch is showing to others while drawing

Things you may want to know

• Whiteboards are gone if you restart the Server, so keep that in mind (or save your whiteboard)
• This is just a sample layout to show the functions available
• You shoud be able to customize without ever toutching the whiteboard.js (take a look at index.html & main.js)

___ MIT License ___