> Now I'm thinking perhaps I'll try using git submodules to make the TW repo a 'sub-repo' of my tiddler repo...
Well... that didn't work so well. `:-} I got an error saying: "TypeError: $tw.utils.replaceString is not a function". It's probably a PEBCAK <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PEBCAK> error, but I created an issue for it, just in case, see: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2695 On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 11:51:35 AM UTC-5, Evade Flow wrote: > > > If I only need the tiddlywiki.js file and node.exe that trims things > down considerably. > > Ah. I see now that I misunderstood. You didn't say that having *only * > tiddlywiki.js and node.exe was sufficient, you said to clone the TW repo > and drop node.exe into it. Instead, I tried copying both node.exe and > tiddlywiki.js into *my *TW folder, and got: > > > module.js:472 > throw err; > ^ > > Error: Cannot find module './boot/boot.js' > at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15) > at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25) > at Module.require (module.js:498:17) > at require (internal/module.js:20:19) > at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\wod2fh\projects\reverie\tiddlywiki.js: > 7:11) > at Module._compile (module.js:571:32) > at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10) > at Module.load (module.js:488:32) > at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12) > at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3) > > > Now I'm thinking perhaps I'll try using git submodules to make the TW repo > a 'sub-repo' of my tiddler repo... > > > On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 11:31:09 AM UTC-5, Evade Flow wrote: >> >> > 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]> 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/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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