Over the years, TiddlyWiki has earned an enduring role as a tool that people [[love using|Raves]] for its rich, interactive interface to [[manipulate complex data|TiddlyWikiConcepts]] with structure that doesn't easily fit into conventional tools like spreadsheets and wordprocessors. Because people can use it without needing any complicated server infrastructure, and because it is [[open source|OpenSourceLicense]], it has bought unprecedented freedom to people to keep their precious information under their own control. TiddlyWiki was originally created by JeremyRuston and is now a thriving [[open source|OpenSourceLicense]] project with a busy [[Community]] of independent developers.
TiddlyWiki5 gains new capabilities through a [[completely rebuilt architecture|TiddlyWikiArchitecture]] using the latest features of HTML5 and node.js. It runs natively under node.js, and can also use its own components to construct a version of itself that works entirely within the browser, just as TiddlyWiki has always done.
TiddlyWiki5 also functions as the build system for earlier versions of TiddlyWiki, replacing the elderly Cook and Ginsu tools (see https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/cooker for details). See the CommandLineInterface for details.
