> I think that nowadays nodejs is easy to install and use on any platform, and npm is included in nodejs
After going through the process on Windows, OS X and Linux yesterday, I have to agree. It wasn't too hard to figure out on each platform. I've still got some rough edges to file down, but it seems like I can find a way to automate the steps. Or... make them 'semi-automated', anyway. Thanks for the feedback! On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 4:36:12 AM UTC-5, BJ wrote: > > 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 serve 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/e5cb7e9b-9873-4dc3-b8ce-a2b2dfcddaed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
