paste

Simple Node.js pastebin built with Koa, MongoDB, Jade, Bootstrap 4 and Prism.js.

Try it out at paste.fyi

Features

• Clean code thanks to ES7 async/await, Koa and Babel
• Full syntax highlighting via Prism.js
• CTRL+Enter hotkey for quick paste submission
• Short URLs via shortid, e.g. NyQO9puMe
• Full support for CLI requests with curl etc
• Textarea grows to fit content via autosize
• Automatic and configurable paste expiry
• Runs fully containerized with Docker and Vagrant
• Simple and responsive UI built with Bootstrap 4

Usage

# Simple paste
$ echo 'Hello World' | curl -F 'paste=<-' http://paste.fyi
http://paste.fyi/N15FNVqfg

# wget or any other tool is fine too:
$ wget --post-data 'paste=Hello from wget' -qO- http://paste.fyi

# Either form or multipart data is accepted:
$ curl -d 'paste=Sent as multipart' http://paste.fyi

# Specify the syntax to highlight:
$ git diff README.md | curl -F 'paste=<-' -F 'highlight=diff' http://paste.fyi

Development

1. Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/JoeBiellik/paste.git && cd paste

2. Start the virtual machine and connect:

vagrant up
vagrant ssh

4. Install dependencies:

npm install

5. Start MongoDB:

docker-compose up db -d

5. Start app and watch for changes:

npm run watch

Deployment

1. Configure config/docker.json with any custom settings

2. Start the production database and Node.js server:

docker-compose up