Hi Jed I’ve been meaning to experiment along similar lines. I had my eye on unpkg.com, an independent project that provides a gateway to files stored in npm. It’s intended so that scripts can reference things like:
https://unpkg.com/tiddlywiki@5.1.19/boot/boot.js <https://unpkg.com/tiddlywiki@5.1.19/boot/boot.js> The really interesting thing is that the files are served with access-control-allow-origin: * So, we could fairly easily take the repository https://github.com/jermolene/jermolene.github.io that contains the raw files for tiddlywiki.com and publish it to npm. Then one would be able to do things like: https://unpkg.com/tiddlywiki@5.1.19/library/v5.1.19/recipes/library/tiddlers/%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftiddlywiki%2Frailroad.json <https://unpkg.com/tiddlywiki@5.1.19/library/v5.1.19/recipes/library/tiddlers/$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/railroad.json> Best wishes Jeremy > On 3 Apr 2019, at 09:34, Jed Carty <inmyso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think I sort of buried the lede in the last release post for Bob, but one > of the new features is that it can now get plugins directly from GitHub > repos. You can just give it the URL and it will fetch the plugin and save it > to your library of plugins so it is available to all of your wikis. > > I have tried to make a version for single file wikis, and it works, aside > from my nemesis, CORS headers. From a browser you can't download the zip > files from GitHub because they don't have CORS set up to let you do that. You > may be able to down load specific files, but from what I have been able to > find you can only do that if you know the names of the individual files. So > the only realistic way I have been able to come up with for a single file > wiki to get and build plugins directly from GitHub requires some sort of > relay server. Bob could act as this server, but if you have Bob running it > would be easier to just get the plugins with Bob and then either make your > wiki in Bob and save it as a single file wiki, or use TWederBob to fetch the > plugin from Bob. > > So, for anyone who was able to follow my rambling, is it worth setting up Bob > as a relay like this? A publicly accessible Bob server like on ooktech.xyz > could also act as a relay which may make the relay idea much more useful. But > so far I don't think anyone is really using the plugin library there so I > have no idea if anyone would care. > > > > The next part is about Bob itself. Currently Bob is quite large, about 750kb, > which is around half the size of an empty wiki. On slow connections or older > hardware this could add a significant amount of time to loading a wiki. > I can modify how Bob sends wikis to the browser so that it only sends the > required parts to the browser, which come out to around 250kb. The biggest > problem I see with this is that you would not be able to install Bob by > dragging and dropping the plugin into a node wiki. > My hope is that BobEXE means that isn't really necessary anymore, but I > wanted to see how people feel about it. > Another potential concern is that you no longer get to see all of the code > for what Bob is doing in your wiki. I don't think that this is a concern for > most people, and the code for Bob is up on GitHub, but one part of tiddlywiki > that I like is that you can see all of the code that is running right there > in your browser. > > -- > 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6fe8da01-dbeb-4158-9637-7b301e1c5398%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6fe8da01-dbeb-4158-9637-7b301e1c5398%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/4B0FE3E0-7C71-4A74-9BF5-F2A6C659A04D%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
