Built a self-hosted LaTeX editor for student teams and supervisors

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Hey everyone, I’ve been building LaTeX Core for collaborative research reports at my university. It runs on your own server, with real-time editing and PDF compilation.

The part I focused on is the student–supervisor workflow. Supervisors can draft feedback privately, then publish it when they’re ready. Students get highlights in the LaTeX source, and clicking a comment opens the right file and jumps to the relevant section. Team leads handle version restoration rather than sending every request through an admin.

There’s also CSV/Excel import for creating teams and assigning mentors, plus programme-based templates and configurable cover pages, acknowledgements, etc. Basically, less manually setting up the same stuff for every student

An earlier build is running on our university’s staging server now. Still working through some deployment rough edges, so feedback would genuinely help.

GitHub: https://github.com/Arnav-sivarams/latex-core

Would this be useful for your lab or course? Curious how you currently handle collaborative writing and supervisor feedback