pad.ws is a whiteboard app that acts as a dev environment in your browser. It uses Excalidraw for the whiteboard interface while Coder powers the cloud development environments.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Interactive Whiteboard – Draw, sketch and visualize your ideas with Excalidraw.
- Fully fledged IDE – Access terminals and VS Code directly within the whiteboard.
- Browser friendly – Access your dev env from any device.
- Seamless Workflow – Switch between visual ideation and coding.
- Use your own tools – Access your VM from your desktop client (VS Code & Cursor supported).
- +Self-hostable on local machine.
Website: github.com/coderamp-labs/pad.ws
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Developer: pad.ws
License: MIT License
pad.ws is written in TypeScript and Python. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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