Going away from nodejs would involve some work. Tiddlywiki is a dual platform application one platform is nodejs the other is the browser. For example:
tiddlywiki contain a packaging application that runs under nodejs - in the boot.js - this contains a build system, one feature is that it can package directory trees containing tiddlers into plugins. This makes it super easy to use git to manage plugin dev. tiddlywiki is also a dedicated http tiddler server written for nodejs - it 'knows' how to sever and save tiddlers. I think that nowadays nodejs is easy to install and use on any platform, and npm is included in nodejs all the best BJ On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 1:50:28 AM UTC+1, Evade Flow wrote: > > > 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/dddd3bea-6fa5-4d58-9b42-21c356b8c34d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
