Shao-Pastebin

SHAO Pastebin is a web app for storing and sharing any text online. This kind of websites are mainly used by programmers to share their code snippets, but anyone is welcome to paste any text.

Features

• Fast
• Simple and lightweight
• Splitted frontend and backend
• Support Markdown
• Free and easy to deploy

Getting Started

Our Service

Don't you want to deploy on your own? Just visit our website to use our public service!

Server

Prerequisite

• A SendGrid account (free account is OK)
• PHP version 7.0 or greater
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater (or any other compatible database)

Deployment

1. Register at SendGrid and get the key for email sending
2. Create a MySQL compatible database
3. Import /backend/pastebin.sql to the database created
4. Modify configurations in /backend/config.php according to comments in the file
5. Upload all files except /backend/pastebin.sql in /backend/ folder to your server

Client

Prerequisite

• A SHAO-Pastebin server (you can use our server https://api.paste.shao.fun or https://api.pastebin.594144.xyz to test)
• A server to hold client program (you can run locally) or deployment services like Netlify and GitHub Pages
• For running locally, Node.js >= 12.x and npm >= 6.x is recommended

Deployment

You can run it locally by typing npm test. Then you can visit localhost:8080 to have a glance.

Meanwhile, you can set up a traditional web server like nginx and Caddy. And upload all files in root folder except /backend/.

We RECOMMEND deploying with GitHub Pages, for the best experience and the most reliability:

1. Fork this repository
2. Switch to branch pages
3. Modify the backend URL configuration in /config.json
4. Stash and commit the changes
5. Set up GitHub Pages:
   1. Visit your forked repository on GitHub
   2. Go to Settings->Pages
   3. Select source branch pages and folder / (root) and save
   4. You can also add your custom domain

License

SHAO Pastebin is released under Apache-2.0 License. See the LICENSE file for more details