title: Building classic TiddlyWiki with TiddlyWiki5
tags: docs

TiddlyWiki5 can be used to build older 2.x.x versions of TiddlyWiki from their constituent components. Doing so involves these additional features over and above those used for building TiddlyWiki5:

* The `tiddlywiki2/loadrecipe` plugin, containing a deserializer module which allows tiddlers to be loaded from TiddlyWiki 2.x.x `.recipe` files
* The `tiddlywiki2/stripcomments` plugin, containing a new viewer format for the `<$view>` widget that strips single line JavaScript comments starting `//#`
* The `stripTitlePrefix='yes'` attribute of the `<$fields>` widget, which removes prefixes wrapped in curly braces from the `title` attribute
** For example, `{tiddler}HelloThere` would be transformed to `HelloThere`

! Usage

TiddlyWikiClassic is built from the command line by running TiddlyWiki5 under node.js. A typical usage would be:

```
node ../../tiddlywiki.js \
	--verbose \
	--load <path_to_recipe_file> \
	--savetiddler $:/core/templates/tiddlywiki2.template.html <path_to_write_index_file> text/plain \
	|| exit 1
```