Single-user pastebin with a terminal CLI, syntax highlighting and memorable links, on a Worker with a D1 database
- Deploy
- One-click
- License
- MIT
- GitHub stars
- 148 stars
- Last commit
Self-hosted alternatives to GitHub Gist
GitHub Gist is GitHub’s hosted service for sharing code snippets and notes, where each gist is a small Git repository. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features GitHub Gist describes on its own site.
GitHub Gist features, app by app
| Feature | pbnj |
|---|---|
| Share code snippets by link | Yes |
| Syntax highlighting | Yes |
| Secret gists that are unlisted | Yes |
| Revision history through Git | No |
| Several files in one gist | No |
| Stars, forks and comments | No |
| Embedding in web pages | No |
| Creating gists from the command line with gh | Yes |
Single-user pastebin with a terminal CLI, syntax highlighting and memorable links, on a Worker with a D1 database
- What a GitHub Gist user would miss
- There is no revision history, no multi-file pastes, no stars, forks or comments, and no embed code.
- What it adds
- MIT and runs in your own Cloudflare account and domain, without a GitHub account, with memorable links and 12 themes.
- Yes Share code snippets by link. Every paste gets a link, and its raw text is served at /r/ followed by the ID.
- Yes Syntax highlighting. More than 100 languages in 12 themes.
- Yes Secret gists that are unlisted. Private pastes stay off the homepage and can require a secret key in the link.
- No Revision history through Git. A paste can be updated, but earlier versions are not kept.
- No Several files in one gist. One file per paste.
- No Stars, forks and comments. Left out on purpose.
- No Embedding in web pages. No embed code.
- Yes Creating gists from the command line with gh. The pbnj CLI pastes a file or piped output and copies the link.
Sources:github.com/bhavnicksm/pbnj#readmegithub.com/bhavnicksm/pbnj/tree/main/docsdocs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/editing-and-sharing-content-with-gists/creating-gists