# pawelmalak/snippet-box

Snippet Box is a simple self-hosted app for organizing your code snippets. It allows you to easily create, edit, browse and manage your snippets in various languages.

Repository: https://github.com/pawelmalak/snippet-box
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/snippet-box
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: self-hosted, snippets, snippets-library, snippets-manager
Last push: 2023-04-05T17:41:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1810, "days_push": 1246, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1092, forks 93 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:33.209716+00:00)

## What it is
Snippet Box is a self-hosted web application for organizing, creating, editing, and browsing code snippets across various languages. It features Markdown notes, syntax highlighting, tag/language filtering, search, and pinned snippets, deployed easily via Docker.

## Use cases
- self-host a personal code snippet manager
- organize code snippets with tags and language filters
- store code snippets with markdown documentation
- search my saved code snippets quickly
- pin frequently used snippets for quick access
- manage a team snippet library on my own server

## When to avoid
- you need collaborative features, sharing, or multi-user accounts
- you want git-based snippet versioning or IDE integration
- you need a project with frequent updates - the latest release is from 2023

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: self-hosted, search-engine, markdown
- domain: developer-tools, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: code-snippets, snippet-manager, react, express, sqlite, typescript, docker, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- pawelmalak/snippet-box (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:33.209716+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:49:03.363678+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pawelmalak/snippet-box (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:33.209716+00:00, sha 123f0eda1d8e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.