Diffr

Create and share diffs with Diffr, the privacy focused online text diffing tool.

This is the source code repository of the Diffr app. You can find the app at loilo.github.io/diffr.

Technologies

The core technologies this project uses are:

Technology	Purpose
Monaco Editor	A text/code editor by Microsoft, used for the editing and diffing area itself.
Nuxt	An application framework for Vue.js, used for prerendering, PWA support and overall application structure.
`lz-string`	A quick and space-efficient compression algorithm, used for serializing the current app state in the URL anchor in as few characters as possible.
GitHub Pages	This app does (purposefully) not generate any income. Therefore, free hosting is essential to keep it running.

Clone this repository and install its dependencies using npm.

npm ci

Start a local dev server with hot reloading:

npm run dev

Create a production-ready site in the dist folder:

npm run generate

Set the BASE_URL environment variable to create a build that can be hosted in a subfolder of a domain, e.g.:

BASE_URL=/diffr/ npm run generate