paste is a simple web app for writing & sharing code. It's my own take on conventional pastebin sites like pastebin.com or hastebin.

Anyone can use paste! The official/public instance can be accessed using the endpoints listed below, but you can also host your own if you like!

1) In a Web Browser

Just go to https://pastes.dev!

2) From the Command Line

You can submit content most easily using curl.

# Upload the contents of a file
> curl -T example.txt https://api.pastes.dev/post

# Upload the contents of a file and specify the language
> curl -T example.yml -H "Content-Type: text/yaml" https://api.pastes.dev/post

# Pipe in some output from any command
> echo "Hello world" | curl -T - https://api.pastes.dev/post

If you don't want to do so much typing, you can create a shorter alias.

# Add this to the end of `~/.bashrc` and run 'source ~/.bashrc'
paste() {
  curl -T $1 https://api.pastes.dev/post
}

then...

# Upload the contents of a file
> paste example.txt

# Pipe in some output from any command
> echo "Hello!" | paste -

3) From Code / Scripts

Please see the API Documentation. :)

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About

The frontend (this repository) is written using the React framework. The backend data storage is handled by a separate web service called bytebin.

The user-interface is based on the Monaco Editor, the engine behind the popular Visual Studio Code text editor. It's quite simple; it supports syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, many supported languages, themes, zooming in/out, linking to specific lines or sections, and more!

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Self-hosting

The easiest way to self-host is using Docker (& Docker Compose). You can run the following commands to get started:

git clone https://github.com/lucko/paste
cd paste
docker compose up -d

You should then (hopefully!) be able to access the application at http://localhost:8080/.