> is there some way I can access/modify this collection of files using only git and a browser?
Driving home this evening, I realized this was a bit of a silly question for somebody who professes to be a software developer by trade to ask—doh! (Can you tell I'm not a web developer?) Looking at the files processed by tiddlywiki+NodeJS, I see that *none* of them are HTML. It truly is "tiddlers all the way down", so... *something* has to convert all those .tid files to HTML so the browser can display them. I guess I should rephrase my question as: is there some way of serving multi-file TW content that requires less setup work than NodeJS? I'm thinking about how Python contains builtin modules that let you run something like this in a folder: $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 For me, this would be a big win because (as it happens) just about every machine I work on already has Python installed. And they *all* have Perl, which I believe has a similar (built-in) capability[?] So it would be "one less thing" to worry about it when configuring a new environment. On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 4:44:43 PM UTC-5, Evade Flow wrote: > > I've been experimenting with TiddlyWiki and NodeJS, and discovered that > 'importing' my mono-html file (using tiddlywiki --load) causes it to be > converted into a bunch of discrete files. Further experiments reveal that > it is possible—seemingly, at least—to sync these files (and hence, my > entire wiki) to multiple machines using git push/pull. The one catch is: > it appears that the only way to actually *use* a TiddlyWiki structured > this way is to serve it using NodeJS? Is that correct? Or... is there some > way I can access/modify this collection of files using only git and a > browser? > > I ask because the setup I'm fumbling my way towards seems a bit... > cumbersome. I'm a software developer by trade, so sync'ing git repos to > multiple machines comes as naturally as breathing. In contrast, doing a > local install of Node + npm + tiddlywiki on each machine I want to access > the data from feels like a lot of extra effort. I use Windows and Linux at > work, and OS X at home, and I'd rather not bother figuring out the nuances > of how to do that dance on all three platforms—especially given that I > don't have admin/root access on all the machines I'd like to access my > wiki(s) from. > > I already have a *killer* setup for managing my myriad config files ( > .vimrc, .zshrc, .tmux.conf, etc.) and various plugins using myrepos > <https://myrepos.branchable.com/> and vcsh > <https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh>. *Everything* is stored in git, so I can > sync my setup around to whatever machines I want. It would be enormously > helpful if I could do the same with my TiddlyWiki(s). Is this possible? > > *NOTE*: After trying it a few times, I don't have much interest in trying > to sync changes to monolithic TW files. The mono-HTML files are huge, and > the diffs contain so much 'noise' that trying to merge updates from > multiple machines seems like an impossibility. (Perhaps I'll find that the > multi-file layout has quirks/pitfalls of its own, but so far, it seems > really easy to understand and reason about...) > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e5c24183-b6aa-43a1-a682-2fc8137f4fab%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
