You know that feeling when you've written a perfect regex, or a clean auth middleware, and then two weeks later you're digging through 6 old projects trying to find it?

That's what SnipVault solves.

It's a personal code snippet manager — you save snippets with tags and a language label, and later you just search and copy. That's it. No cloud, no account, runs locally.

git clone https://github.com/ashish7802/SnipVault.git
cd SnipVault
# Backend
cd backend
python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn app.main:app --reload --port 8000
# Frontend (new terminal)
cd frontend
npm install && npm run dev

Frontend runs on http://localhost:5173, API on http://localhost:8000, and Swagger docs at /docs.

• Save snippets with a title, language, tags, and optional description
• Search by title or tag instantly
• Syntax highlighted code blocks with one-click copy
• Delete with a confirmation prompt
• Fully local — SQLite, no external services

Gists are public by default and have no tag-based search. Notes apps don't do syntax highlighting. SnipVault is just a focused tool for one specific problem — storing and finding code you already wrote.

Backend is FastAPI + SQLAlchemy on SQLite. Frontend is React 18 with Vite and TailwindCSS. Syntax highlighting via react-syntax-highlighter.

SnipVault/
├── backend/
│ └── app/
│ ├── main.py ← routes + CORS
│ ├── models.py ← DB models
│ ├── schemas.py ← Pydantic schemas
│ ├── crud.py ← DB operations
│ └── database.py ← SQLite setup
│
└── frontend/
 └── src/
 ├── App.jsx
 ├── components/
 │ ├── SnippetForm.jsx
 │ ├── SnippetCard.jsx
 │ └── SearchBar.jsx
 └── services/
 └── api.js

• Edit snippets inline
• JWT auth
• Export to GitHub Gist
• Browser extension

PRs are welcome. If you add something useful, open a PR and I'll review it.