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Excalidraw with Aakansha Doshi
Episode 91

Excalidraw with Aakansha Doshi

Canvas drawing with Excalidraw and Aakansha Doshi

The Developers' Bakery

October 31, 202440m 59s

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Show Notes

Today we’re going to talk about Excalidraw 🎨, a web tool to sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn style.

I’m glad to have on stage Aakansha Doshi, one of the maintainer of Excalidraw, to tell us more about this project. Aakansha will tell us the story of Excalidraw, how it evolved over time, and its secret to achieve the distinctive hand-drawn style.

We’ll also talk about the community around Excalidraw, and Aakansha will share some tips on how to start contributing to your first open-source project.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

  • 00.00 Intro
  • 00.46 Episode Start
  • 01.13 Akansha’s Introduction
  • 02.21 What is Excalidraw?
  • 03.51 Excalidraw’s hand-written style
  • 06.32 Storing and sharing diagrams
  • 09.16 excalidraw.com vs OSS
  • 10.10 The Excalidraw tech stack
  • 11.12 Your story with Excalidraw
  • 14.42 Who’s maintaining Excalidraw?
  • 16.22 Suggestions for getting started with open source
  • 19.04 How to contribute to Excalidraw?
  • 21.33 Isn’t Excalidraw feature complete?
  • 25.20 How do you test Excalidraw?
  • 26.27 Biggest challenge in maintaining Excalidraw
  • 30.32 Refactoring Excalidraw
  • 32.11 What’s next for Excalidraw?
  • 35.33 AI & Excalidraw
  • 37.08 Further reading
  • 39.17 Where people can find you online?

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