tiddly-node-saver

Serves (and saves) your Classic TiddlyWiki from your Dropbox or other type of shared folder.

Features

• Supports viewing and saving multiple TiddlyWikis without browser plugins
• Protects against overwriting changes from other sources accessing the same wiki (e.g. phone apps, other browser windows)
• Should run on any OS with Node support

Prerequisites

• Requires a recent version of Node and NPM.
• Only works with Classic TiddlyWiki. Latest version available on Git.

Install

Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/fallwest/tiddly-node-saver.git  

Alternatively, you can download files without Git.

Install library dependencies

Run the following command under the root directory:

npm install

Configure

Replace the Dropbox (or other kind of shared folder) path in config.json with the path to the folder where your Tiddlywiki html files live:

{
 "dropBoxFolder" : "C:\\Users\\user\\Dropbox\\Apps\\Quine",
 "extraFolders" : ["images", "files"],
 "port" : 8083
}

Advanced configuration

• Add any extra folders for files or images that you reference in your wiki to the extraFolders array
• Change the port number this server runs on if you need to.

Run

1. Run command node server.js to start server
2. Navigate to http://localhost:8083/yourtiddlywiki.html to view your wiki (be sure to use the name of your own tiddlywiki instead of yourtiddlywiki.html)

Run as a Windows service

1. Download NSSM or install with Chocolatey
2. Run command nssm install tiddlysaver
3. Fill in the form with the following values:

Click the "Install service" button and then start the "tiddlysaver" process. The process should henceforth start automatically as a service.

Run as a Linux service

• Use pm2 to set up Node to automatically start server.js. Follow directions here: manage-application-with-pm2

Troubleshooting

• If the TiddlyWiki "save changes" button does not appear when you first navigate to your TiddlyWiki in your browser, try refreshing the page. The button should then always appear.
• The first time you load, try loading your wiki with browser caching turned off (easiest way, have developer console open - F12 key) to ensure that you get a fresh copy of your wiki back from the server.