Mark, I think at the time of writing those docs, their focus was on official plugins! By the way I tried in my tutorial create a step by step simple procedure! As you see the main point is: correct naming, folder structure, plugin.info
So, any newbie can follow and create one! --Mohammad On Sunday, May 3, 2020 at 8:37:39 AM UTC+4:30, Mark S. wrote: > > Looking at the /dev instructions, I feel there may be an error. It looks > like you'll end up with a directory structure like: > > TW/plugins/<your name>/<your plugin>/<your plugin>/ > > I think when you do the cloning, you should be in the <your name> > directory, not the <your plugin> directory. Or am I misunderstanding? > > Also, you don't need to build the index do you? If you run node, then > inside your hosted node (e.g. 127.0.0.1:8080) you can just navigate to > plugins and then export it. > > On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 10:17:40 PM UTC-8, Mohammad wrote: >> >> I am preparing a section in The Book by Luis on creating plugins using TW >> on Node.JS. >> While I did by myself many times but I see the default documentation and >> the way >> https://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#Developing%20plugins%20using%20Node.js%20and%20GitHub >> >> explais >> is confusing for beginners. >> >> I think the procedure should be like this >> >> 1. having install node.js >> 2. having install TW on node.js >> 3. create the plugin folder >> 4. develop the plugin tiddlers (normal tiddlers, macros, styles, >> modules, ...) >> 5. pack it >> 6. export and distribute >> >> The procedure SHOULD not rely on other plugins only pure TW distributed >> officially >> >> I appreciate if anybody can share a simple to understand procedure or any >> resources on this. >> >> >> You help much appreciated. >> >> --Mohammad >> >> >> Some references >> >> >> 1. >> >> https://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#Developing%20plugins%20using%20Node.js%20and%20GitHub >> 2. >> >> https://kookma.github.io/TW-Scripts/#Plugins%20and%20Node.JS%20version%20of%20Tiddlywiki >> 3. >> >> https://kookma.github.io/TW-Scripts/#Installing%20TiddlyWiki%20on%20Node.js >> 4. >> >> https://kookma.github.io/TW-Scripts/#TiddlyWikiPluginSkeleton%3A%20Creating%20New%20Plugin >> 5. >> >> https://kookma.github.io/TW-Scripts/#Plugins%20and%20Node.JS%20version%20of%20Tiddlywiki >> 6. https://kookma.github.io/TW-Scripts/#How%20to%20Write%20a%20Plugin >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2810c708-6ea0-4a76-9d3c-ca1bf53e50ee%40googlegroups.com.
