GistBox

GistBox: Lightweight Code Sharing App

A simple web app for creating, organizing and sharing code snippets online

What is GistBox?

GistBox is an open-source web application designed for conveniently creating, organizing, and sharing code snippets online. It provides a simple pastebin-style interface optimized for posting and managing fragments of code.

With GistBox, developers can easily dump bits of code they want to store or share publicly or privately with others. It allows creating multiple separate boxes to organize gists by project, language, etc. Users can add descriptions and tags to gists for better discovery.

Some key features include syntax highlighting for published code, revision history tracking, simple Markdown formatting in descriptions, keyboard shortcuts, embedding gists on other sites, and API access. By default, all gists are public, but logged-in users can create secret private boxes visible only to them.

Under the hood, GistBox is built on Node.js and MongoDB. The full source code is available on GitHub, allowing developers to easily host their own instance if desired. While not yet a complete developer notebook alternative, GistBox provides a straightforward way to share, manage and catalog code snippets online.

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