> From reading your email, I guess you don't know that you can just download any tag or the master from the TiddlyWiki GitHub repository, drop node.exe into it and call "node.exe tiddlywiki.js ../data/wiki1 --server"...
That's actually *really* helpful, thanks. You mean: I don't need to download *all* of node/npm? I found these instructions <https://gist.github.com/massahud/321a52f153e5d8f571be> for installing on Windows, and (more-or-less) followed them, installing the npm + nodejs zip package from here <https://nodejs.org/dist/v7.2.1/>, as recommended in one of the comments in the gist. It wasn't difficult, but I was a bit surprised when I saw that the node-v7.2.1-win-x64 folder takes up 70 MB. I mostly do embedded systems development, so I sometimes have these "Get off my lawn!" moments when something dumps a ton of files onto my system whose purpose I don't really understand. (This, even though I've got 315 GB free on that hard drive. I don't claim it makes any sense. `:-] ) Now that I look at it, I see that the node_modules/tiddlywiki subfolder itself is responsible for ~27 of those 70 MB. And the editions folder (which I assume I don't need?) contains some 13 MB of 'stuff'. If I only need the tiddlywiki.js file and node.exe that trims things down considerably. I'll give it a try! On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 10:26:43 PM UTC-5, Arlen Beiler wrote: > > Anything is possible over HTTP. How are you going to save changes? > > From reading your email, I guess you don't know that you can just download > any tag or the master from the TiddlyWiki GitHub repository, drop node.exe > into it and call "node.exe tiddlywiki.js ../data/wiki1 --server" and your > good to go. Easy on Windows, don't know about Linux or Mac, but you're a > software developer :) > > (At first I was going to use the stock "I guess you know...") :-) > > Also several of us are working on serving multiple wikis as separate > folders instead of seperate server instances. > > https://gist.github.com/Arlen22/bbd852f68e328165e49f > > Hope that helps. > > On Jan 3, 2017 7:50 PM, "Evade Flow" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> 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 >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e5c24183-b6aa-43a1-a682-2fc8137f4fab%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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