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How to set up drawdb (drawdb-io/drawdb) · gitmanual

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drawdb-io/drawdb

Free, simple, and intuitive online database diagram editor and SQL generator.

Node.jsVite#database#database-design#database-diagram#database-schema

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
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License: AGPL-3.0
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Start here

Website ↗drawdb.appThe project's own site.

Will it work on my device?

Yes, with Docker on macOS

It's a self-hosted app: the README runs it with Docker, and you open it in your browser.
On macOS that means installing Docker Desktop first.

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Run it with Docker

A self-hosted app: Docker runs it on your computer and you open it in the browser. Needs Docker Desktop (or Docker Engine on Linux). Run docker compose commands inside the cloned repo folder.

Docker

docker run -p 3000:80 -e VITE_BACKEND_URL=https://your-drawdb-server.example.com ghcr.io/drawdb-io/drawdb:latest

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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