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A Real-time drawing application created with Node.js, NowJS and Paper.js

NowDraw - A NodeJS Real-time drawing demo

Copyright 2011, Media Upstream (http://mediaupstream.com)
Licensed under The MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)


I built NowDraw as an excuse to play around with Node and NowJS http://nowjs.org. It's a bare-bones collaborative drawing application, complete with two drawing tools: lines and clouds and a clear button. Support for Mobile / iOS included.

You can demo the application here: http://draw.mediaupstream.com


Preview

Preview


Installation / Usage

  • Make sure you have NodeJS installed as well as NPM
  • cd into the application directory in your terminal and type npm install to install the required dependencies (nowjs, express, ejs)
  • After the dependencies install into node_modules you can start the application by typing node draw.js
  • Visit http://127.0.0.1:3000 and start drawing (open multiple windows to see the real-time drawing)