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Snippet Box is a simple self-hosted app for organizing your code snippets. It allows you to easily create, edit, browse and manage your snippets in various languages.

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Snippet Box

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Description

Snippet Box is a simple self-hosted app for organizing your code snippets. It allows you to easily create, edit, browse and manage your snippets in various languages. With built-in Markdown support, Snippet Box makes it very easy to add notes or simple documentation to your code.

Technology

  • Backend
    • Node.js
    • Typescript
    • Express.js
    • Sequelize ORM + SQLite
  • Frontend
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Bootstrap
  • Deployment
    • Docker

Development

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/pawelmalak/snippet-box
cd snippet-box

# install dependencies (run only once)
npm run init

# start backend and frontend development servers
npm run dev

Installation

With Docker

Docker Hub

Docker Hub image link. For arm platforms use :arm tag.

Building image

# Building image for Linux
docker build -t snippet-box .

# Build image for ARM
docker buildx build \
  --platform linux/arm/v7,linux/arm64 \
  -f Dockerfile.arm \
  -t snippet-box:arm .

Deployment

# run container
# for ARM use snippet-box:arm tag
docker run -p 5000:5000 -v /path/to/data:/app/data snippet-box

Docker Compose

version: '3'
services:
  snippet-box:
    image: pawelmalak/snippet-box:latest
    container_name: snippet-box
    volumes:
      - /path/to/host/data:/app/data
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
    restart: unless-stopped

Without Docker

Follow instructions from wiki - Installation without Docker

Functionality

  • Search
    • Search your snippets with built-in tags and language filters
  • Pinned snippets
    • Pin your favorite / important snippets to home screen for easy and quick access

Homescreen screenshot

  • Snippet library
    • Manage your snippets through snippet library
    • Easily filter and access your code using tags

Snippet library screenshot

  • Snippet
    • View your code, snippet details and documentation
    • Built-in syntax highlighting
    • Easily perform snippet actions like edit, pin or delete from a single place

Snippet screenshot

  • Editor
    • Create and edit your snippets from simple and easy to use editor

Editor screenshot

Usage

Search functionality

Visit wiki for search functionality and available filters reference: Search functionality

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Snippet Box is a simple self-hosted app for organizing your code snippets. It allows you to easily create, edit, browse and manage your snippets in various languages.

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