Welcome to TiddlyWiki5

Welcome to TiddlyWiki5, a reboot of TiddlyWiki, the non-linear personal web notebook first released in 2004. It is a complete interactive wiki in JavaScript that can be run from a single HTML file in the browser or as a powerful node.js application.

TiddlyWiki5 is currently in alpha, meaning it is working but incomplete. It is a great time to get involved and support its future development:

TiddlyWiki is a free, open source project that depends on your love and support for its survival

Getting started with TiddlyWiki under node.js

TiddlyWiki5 can be used on the command line to perform an extensive set of operations based on tiddlers, TiddlyWikiFolders, TiddlerFiles and TiddlyWikiFiles. For example, the following command loads the tiddlers from a TiddlyWiki HTML file and then saves one of them in HTML:

node tiddlywiki.js --verbose --load mywiki.html --rendertiddler ReadMe ./readme.html

In order to use TiddlyWiki5 on the command line you must first install node.js from http://nodejs.org/

Usage

Running tiddlywiki.js from the command line boots the TiddlyWiki 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.

The first argument is the optional path to the TiddlyWikiFolder to be loaded. If not present, then the current directory is used.

The commands and their individual arguments follow, each command being identified by the prefix --.

node tiddlywiki.js [<wikipath>] [--<command> [<arg>[,<arg>]]]

Batch Files

For trying TiddlyWiki5 out under node.js, several batch files are provided:

bld.sh builds tw5.com

This batch file builds several variants of TiddlyWiki5 for deployment on tiddlywiki.com.

By default, files are output to a folder called jermolene.github.com in the same directory as the main TiddlyWiki5 directory. You will need to create the directory before running the batch file. For example:

* /TiddlyWork/ - Directory for working with TiddlyWiki5
* /TiddlyWork/TiddlyWiki5/ - Directory containing the TiddlyWiki5 repo from GitHub
* /TiddlyWork/jermolene.github.com/ - Directory for output files

You can override the build output directory by defining the environment variable TW5_BUILD_OUTPUT. The easiest way to do this is to create a personal batch file to invoke TiddlyWiki5 that first sets the environment variable and then invokes bld.sh.

The files output by bld.sh are:

bld.sh also runs the TiddlyWiki5 node.js-based test suite (see TestingMechanism)

serve.sh serves tw5.com

This batch file starts TiddlyWiki5 running as an HTTP server with the content from the clientserver edition. By default, the script serves on port 8080.

To experiment with this configuration, run the script and then visit http://0.0.0.0:8080 in a browser.

Changes made in the browser propagate to the server over HTTP (use the browser developer console to see these requests). The server then syncs changes to the file system (and logs each change to the screen).

wbld.sh builds TiddlyWiki5 for TiddlyWeb

This batch file builds and deploys the code for TiddlyWiki5 in the Sky for TiddlyWeb. If you want to experiment with your own builds of TiddlyWiki5 for TiddlyWeb you could use this batch file as a base.

2bld.sh builds TiddlyWiki 2.6.5

This batch file builds TiddlyWiki 2.6.5 from the original source and then uses the opendiff program to display the differences between them.

Commands

The following commands are available:

LoadCommand

Load tiddlers from 2.x.x TiddlyWiki files ( .html), .tiddler, .tid, .json or other files 

--load <filepath>

PasswordCommand

Set a password for subsequent crypto operations

--password <password>

PrintCommand

The print command outputs specified information.

print tiddlers

Output the titles of the tiddlers in the wiki store

--print tiddlers

print tiddler

Print the fields of an individual tiddler 

--print tiddler <title>

print system

Print the titles of the system tiddlers in the wiki store 

--print system

print config

Print the current core configuration 

--print config

RenderTiddlerCommand

Render an individual tiddler as a specified ContentType, defaults to text/html and save it to the specified filename 

--rendertiddler <title> <filename> [<type>]

RenderTiddlersCommand

Render a set of tiddlers matching a filter to separate files of a specified ContentType (defaults to text/html) and extension (defaults to .html).

--rendertiddlers <filter> <template> <pathname> [<type>] [<extension>]

For example:

--rendertiddlers [!is[system]] $:/core/templates/static.tiddler.html ./static text/plain

ServerCommand

The server built in to TiddlyWiki5 is very simple. Although compatible with TiddlyWeb it doesn't support many of the features needed for robust Internet-facing usage - in particular, TiddlyWiki5 is an old-school wiki in the sense that it offers no authentication.

At the root, it serves a rendering of a specified tiddler. Away from the root, it serves individual tiddlers encoded in JSON, and supports the basic HTTP operations for GET, PUT and DELETE.

--server <port> <roottiddler> <rendertype> <servetype> <username>

The parameters are:

  • port - port number to serve from (defaults to "8080")
  • roottiddler - the tiddler to serve at the root (defaults to "$:/core/tiddlywiki5.template.html")
  • rendertype - the content type to which the root tiddler should be rendered (defaults to "text/plain")
  • servetype - the content type with which the root tiddler should be served (defaults to "text/html")
  • username - the default username for signing edits

For example:

--server 8080 $:/core/tiddlywiki5.template.html text/plain text/html MyUserName

VerboseCommand

Triggers verbose output, useful for debugging 

--verbose

VersionCommand

Displays the version number of TiddlyWiki.

--version

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