<p>Welcome to <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a>, a non-linear personal web notebook that anyone can use and keep forever, independently of any corporation.</p><p><aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> is a complete interactive wiki in <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/JavaScript.html'>JavaScript</a>. It can be used as a single HTML file in the browser or as a powerful Node.js application. It is highly customisable: the entire user interface is itself implemented in hackable <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/WikiText.html'>WikiText</a>.</p><p>Learn more and see it in action at <aclass='tc-tiddlylink-external'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/'target='_blank'>http://tiddlywiki.com/</a></p><p>Developer documentation is in progress at <aclass='tc-tiddlylink-external'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/'target='_blank'>http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/</a></p><h1class=''>Installing <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> on Node.js</h1><ol><li>Install <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/Node.js.html'>Node.js</a> from <aclass='tc-tiddlylink-external'href='http://nodejs.org'target='_blank'>http://nodejs.org</a></li><li>Open a command line terminal and type:<blockquote><p><code>npm install -g tiddlywiki</code></p><p>If it fails with an error you may need to re-run the command as an administrator:</p><p><code>npm install -g tiddlywiki</code> (Windows)</p><p><code>sudo npm install -g tiddlywiki</code> (Mac/Linux)</p></blockquote></li><li>Check <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> is installed by typing:<blockquote><p><code>tiddlywiki --version</code></p></blockquote></li><li>In response, you should see <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> report its current version (eg <code>5.0.8-beta</code>; you may also see other debugging information reported)</li><li>Try it out:<ol><li><code>tiddlywiki mynewwiki --init server</code> to create a folder for a new wiki that includes server-related components</li><li><code>tiddlywiki mynewwiki --server</code> to start <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a></li><li>Visit <aclass='tc-tiddlylink-external'href='http://127.0.0.1:8080/'target='_blank'>http://127.0.0.1:8080/</a> in your browser</li><li>Try editing and creating tiddlers</li></ol></li></ol><p>The <code>-g</code> flag causes <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> to be installed globally. Without it, <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> will only be available in the directory where you installed it.
</p><h1class=''>Using <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> on Node.js</h1><p><aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki5.html'>TiddlyWiki5</a> can be used on the command line to perform an extensive set of operations based on <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWikiFolders.html'>TiddlyWikiFolders</a>, <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlerFiles.html'>TiddlerFiles</a> and <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-missing'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWikiFiles.html'>TiddlyWikiFiles</a>.</p><p>For example, the following command loads the tiddlers from a <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> HTML file and then saves one of them in static HTML:</p><pre><code>tiddlywiki --verbose --load mywiki.html --rendertiddler ReadMe ./readme.html</code></pre><p>Running <code>tiddlywiki</code> from the command line boots the <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> kernel, loads the core plugins and establishes an empty wiki store. It then sequentially processes the command line arguments from left to right. The arguments are separated with spaces.</p><p>The first argument is the optional path to the <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWikiFolders.html'>TiddlyWikiFolder</a> to be loaded. If not present, then the current directory is used.</p><p>The commands and their individual arguments follow, each command being identified by the prefix <code>--</code>.</p><pre><code>tiddlywiki [<wikipath>] [--<command> [<arg>[,<arg>]]]</code></pre><p>The available commands are:</p><p><ul>
</ul></p><h1class=''>Upgrading <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a> on Node.js</h1><p>If you've installed <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki%2520on%2520Node.js.html'>TiddlyWiki on Node.js</a> on the usual way, when a new version is released you can upgrade it with this command:</p><pre><code>npm update -g tiddlywiki</code></pre><p>On Mac or Linux you'll need to add <strong>sudo</strong> like this:</p><pre><code>sudo npm update -g tiddlywiki</code></pre><h1class=''>Also see</h1><p><ul>
</ul></p><p><em>This readme file was automatically generated by <aclass='tc-tiddlylink tc-tiddlylink-resolves'href='http://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyWiki.html'>TiddlyWiki</a></em></p>
