mcolon45 / mindmaps-1

An open source, offline capable, mind mapping application leveraging HTML5 technologies

mindmaps

mindmaps is a prototype of an HTML5 based mind mapping application. It lets you create neat looking mind maps in the browser.

Try it out

• The latest stable build is hosted here.
• Also check out Desktop version

HTML5 goodness

• Written entirely in JavaScript
• 100% offline capable thanks to ApplicationCache
• Stores mind maps in LocalStorage
• FileReader API reads stored mind maps from the hard drive
• Canvas API draws the mind map

Host yourself

All you need is a web server for static files. Copy all files from /bin into your web directory and launch the app with index.html. Make sure your web server serves .appcache files with the mime type text/cache-manifest for the application to be accessible offline.

In Apache add the following line to your .htaccess:

AddType text/cache-manifest .appcache

In nginx add this to conf/mime.types:

text/cache-manifest appcache; 

Alternatively, you can launch a local debug server with npm start which starts a server on localhost:8080.

Installation steps

Install from built branch

• git clone -b gh-pages --single-branch https://github.com/lgg/mindmaps
• now, you have latest version in YOURPATH/mindmaps folder

Install from sources

• git clone https://github.com/lgg/mindmaps && cd mindmaps
• npm run build
• now, you have latest version in YOURPATH/mindmaps/bin/ folder

Also you can host it on your Github Pages

• Fork
• git clone https://github.com/YOURNICKNAME/mindmaps && cd mindmaps
• npm run deploy

Development notes

• Although the application runs fine if you launch /src/index.html, be aware that this is just the DEBUG mode for development. In debug mode quite a lot of output is sent to the console, ApplicationCache is deactivated and all script files are served individually and uncompressed.
• List of used JS libraries you can find here.

License

• mindmaps is licensed under AGPL V3, see LICENSE for more information.
• Author of mindmaps is David
• Some fixes and updates lgg