Pyxis

Pyxis is a lightweight, offline-first text editor currently in active development.

Note: Pyxis currently only supports Linux operating systems.

Features

Pyxis offers the following features:

• Offline-first operation
• Conflict-free synchronization
• Workspaces
• Markdown syntax support

See our complete roadmap here.

Running Locally

Pyxis uses pnpm as its package manager.

Run the following commands to set up the .env file and install client dependencies:

pnpm setup:dev
pnpm install

Core Components

Pyxis consists of several core components that can run independently and are bundled as separate binary crates:

App

The Tauri app bundled with the React frontend.

Run the development build:

pnpm start:app

Build for production:

pnpm build:app

Note: Running the app this way also runs the sync crate as a sidecar process.

Server

Required initially for authentication, and later if you've enabled the sync feature. It listens on a port specified using the PORT environment variable.

To run in the development environment:

pnpm start:server

For Docker deployment:

docker build --tag <tag> --target=<dev|prod> .
docker run -p <host_port>:<container_port> \
  --env-file <path_to_dotenv_file> \
  <tag>

Sync

You can run sync independently from the app using the following command:

pnpm start:sync 

To create a release build, run:

pnpm build:sync

All binary crates depend on a shared library crate called pyxis_shared.

License

Copyright (c) 2025 pyxis.ink

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.