fastbin rewritten

Painless, self-hosted, modern alternative to Hastebin.

How to Use

Just paste your code or text, click save, and you're ready to go! You can also select a programming language from the dropdown. You can click on the Raw button to view only the contents, without any UI stuff.

fastbin uses Monaco as its editor, which is the editor used by Visual Studio Code. This offers great functionality and syntax highlighting support.

You can also clone a document using the Clone button.

When viewing documents, the syntax highlighter works based on the ending of the URL. For example, if I have a JavaScript file with the key "foobar", I can append ".js" to the end of the URL and it will highlight it as JavaScript. Appending .js to the raw URL will obviously not work, it expects only the key to be provided.

Once you create a snippet, you will be given a link that you can use to delete it from fastbin. This link will only ever be displayed ONCE, so make sure to save it somewhere safe in case you want to delete your snippet later.

Markdown snippets (.md) open as a rendered preview, with tables, task lists and highlighted code blocks. Use the toggle in the header to switch between the preview and the source; fastbin remembers which one you prefer.

Snippets you are writing are backed up to your browser's local storage as you type, so closing the tab by accident does not lose your work. When you come back, fastbin offers to restore the draft. Nothing leaves your browser until you actually save.

The interface follows your system's light or dark theme and can be pinned to either using the theme button in the header.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
`ctrl+s`	Save the current snippet
`ctrl+i`	Start a new snippet
`ctrl+shift+c`	Clone the snippet you are viewing
`ctrl+shift+r`	Open the raw snippet
`?`	Show the shortcut overview

The ctrl shortcuts also fire while the editor has focus.

fastbin cli

fastbin now has its own command line client. It's available for Linux, Mac OS, Windows, and OpenBSD and you can download it using the link below:

https://github.com/jozsefsallai/fastbin-cli

Compatibility with Haste clients

fastbin was designed to be compatible with most Hastebin clients. If your client support specifying a custom server, you can specify your self-hosted fastbin URL and it should work just fine.

Duration

Currently, files are stored for an indefinite amout of time. This might change in the future (possibly as a custom config option).

Privacy

Please do NOT post any of your secret keys or passwords to a fastbin server. Every URL is unlisted, but again, available for the public. Snippets are NOT encrypted (i.e. they're plaintext). If there's popular demand for snippet encryption, I'll make sure to include that.

Storage Strategies

At the moment, fastbin can store snippets using three different strategies: file, s3, firebase. You can specify which one you want to use by changing the value of the STORAGE_STRATEGY environment variable inside of your .env file from file to any of the ones mentioned earlier.

Some storage strategies require additional configuration.

FileStorageStrategy

You can specify the location of the snippets using the FILE_STORAGE_LOCATION environment variable. This path is relative to the root of the project.

S3StorageStrategy

You need to specify the auth credentials, as well as the endpoint and the S3 bucket name using the S3_* environment variables. Two more are worth knowing about:

S3_REGION — the AWS SDK requires one even for services that ignore it. Defaults to us-east-1.
S3_FORCE_PATH_STYLE — set to true for MinIO, Garage and other S3-compatible servers that address buckets by path rather than subdomain.
S3_ACL — the canned ACL used for uploads, public-read by default. Leave it empty for buckets that have ACLs disabled, which otherwise reject the upload outright.

FirebaseStorageStrategy

You need to specify the name of the Firebase Storage bucket* inside of the FIREBASE_BUCKET property of the config. You should also include your Firebase credentials certificate in .firebase/credentials.json (or as an environment variable, using FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT). This step is cruial. If you don't have a credentials JSON file yet, you can generate one in the settings of your Firebase projects.

*Make sure you only specify the bucket's name, WITHOUT ".appspot.com".

License

MIT.