Yep, just got back from grocery shopping at Kroger's I'll try the save to home screen for fix for a more aggressive cache. That being said I'd like to build "Mr. T" a raspi or sbc laptop or tablet with CloudT or VirtualT with GWBasic or PCBasic thrown in for good measure.
I am such a 80's retro geek Thanks D. Szasz On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 4:04 PM John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 1:10 PM David Szasz <dasz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This morning I was pondering if one could run CloudT Offline? Possibly >> using something called "NodeJS", that is to run javascript offline, maybe >> on a raspberry pi? >> >> Just a thought.... any other ways of running javascript and CloutT >> offline? >> >> > Hmm, well I just tried this in offline mode (network disconnected) on my > laptop in Chrome and it didn't work. I thought it did. > > But on my Moto G6 Play phone, CloudT stored as an home screen app loads > properly in Airplane mode. So saving as a home screen app caches more > aggressively, I guess. > > I need to add a appcache manifest, or the newer standard, a service worker > and it cache on Chrome desktop too. > > As to Node.JS, Node.JS is a combination Javascript runtime and package > management system. None of the CloudT javascript code runs in the server, > just in the browser, so it wouldn't benefit from the Node.JS javascript > engine. > > That said, Node.JS can run some simple webservers. CloudT at this point is > a static html + javascript site, which means it has no server side code. So > it would run locally under any web server and maybe even from a local > directory without trouble. But there are many webservers that will run on a > Pi. The benefit of Node.JS would be if you want to access some hardware. > Say a physical serial port. It could be exposed to CloudT from Node.js > "SerialPort" library as a Websocket to the front end running as a web app. > > But if I get the browser caching set up (thought it was!), I think the > browser would end up being the simplest offline solution. Just browse > Cloudt once with your browser, and it's effectively "installed". > > -- John. >
