(2021-01-01) One Year Of Excalidraw

One Year of Excalidraw. Excalidraw started as a way to procrastinate on January 1st, 2020, and ended up being a fully fledged whiteboard product only one year later! In this post, we’ll go over the most important features that made Excalidraw great at being a virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn-like diagrams.

Excalidraw is fully open source, but it also stands on the shoulders of many other projects. We couldn’t do it without Rough.js, the library that gives Excalidraw its unique look; Virgil, the hand-written font designed by Ellinor Rapp; TypeScript, to tame the complexity of our codebase, giving a helping hand to new contributors (and old ones alike); and last but not least, React. Our full list of dependencies is listed on GitHub.