The canvas now fills the window and the chat floats on its right. draw.io is served from our own origin (public/drawio, downloaded at build time and checked against the release's SHA-256), so the app can drive the editor directly: - every AI change becomes a version card with a thumbnail; compare, restore or undo it, and Ctrl+Z on the canvas takes an AI change back in one step - shapes the AI just changed are highlighted on the canvas - selected shapes appear as a chip and are sent to the model - the app's own canvas toolbar, shape library and page tabs replace draw.io's chrome - new start screen, session rename and switcher, open .drawio files - settings split into Models & keys, Appearance, Advanced and About - phones switch between canvas and chat - dark mode keeps the diagram on a white sheet and no longer flashes With an external draw.io (NEXT_PUBLIC_DRAWIO_BASE_URL) the app falls back to draw.io's own toolbar and the features above that need same origin are off. The chat logic moved from the 1500-line chat panel into a chat engine plus small UI components; zustand holds canvas, versions, settings and UI state.
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Offline Deployment
Next AI Draw.io ships with its own copy of draw.io. npm run build (and the Docker build) downloads the draw.io release into public/drawio once, and the app serves it from /drawio. In use, the browser never contacts embed.diagrams.net, so the app works on an offline or intranet network as long as the build had internet access.
Docker Compose Setup
- Clone the repository and define API keys in
.env. - Run
docker compose up -d(it uses thedocker-compose.ymlin the repository). - Open
http://localhost:3000.
No separate draw.io container is needed.
Building Without Internet Access
The build downloads draw.war (about 50 MB) from the draw.io releases. If the build machine cannot reach GitHub:
- On another machine, download
draw.warfor the version inscripts/fetch-drawio.mjs, unzip it intopublic/drawio(deleteWEB-INFandMETA-INF), and write the version, for examplev32.0.2, intopublic/drawio/.version. The build then uses this copy. - Or build the image on a machine with internet access and transfer it to the offline network.
Using a Separate draw.io Server (Optional)
You can still point the app at another draw.io, such as the jgraph/drawio image, with the build-time variable NEXT_PUBLIC_DRAWIO_BASE_URL:
services:
drawio:
image: jgraph/drawio:latest
ports: ["8080:8080"]
next-ai-draw-io:
build:
context: .
args:
- NEXT_PUBLIC_DRAWIO_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080
ports: ["3000:3000"]
env_file: .env
depends_on: [drawio]
With an external draw.io the app uses draw.io's own toolbar, and these features are off: highlighting what the AI changed, asking about selected shapes, the app's canvas toolbar, and undoing AI changes with Ctrl+Z. Browsers do not let a page control an editor served from a different origin.
The NEXT_PUBLIC_DRAWIO_BASE_URL must be accessible from the user's browser.
| Scenario | URL Value |
|---|---|
| Localhost | http://localhost:8080 |
| Remote/Server | http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:8080 |
Do NOT use internal Docker aliases like http://drawio:8080; the browser cannot resolve them.