Pharo as a development environment for TiddlyWiki target/deployment platform

Hi,

In a previous mail I told how our last semester explorations in the local community  building, deploying and teaching Brea[1][2], a Pharo powered tool between a Static Site Generator and a headless CMS, led me towards TiddlyWiki[3] as the more dynamic counterpart of such deployments and today we a a little chat[4] with Norbert about trying to avoid the over complication of NodeJS and replacing that with a pretty simple Pharo based counterpart.

[1] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/
[2] https://code.tupale.co/Offray/Brea
[3] https://tiddlywiki.com/
[4] https://twitter.com/NorbertHartl/status/1353319130804465668

I would like to start with something like tw5-server.rb [5], which is a pretty small Ruby script (46 lines) based in the Webrick and fileutils libraries, using the Pharo counterparts (Zinc? Teapot?). I don't have experience in Ruby, but maybe something in the list can help. It seems that the script opens a folder in the local file system and serves the files there. One of them is a TiddlyWiki file and once it is served (at port 8000) the class DefaultFileHandler (lines 18 to 35) takes care of saving the file and sucesive copies of it. Particularly lines 25 and 26 create a backup of the body in the current file and updates the Tiddly file body with new versions as saving is done in the web user interface. But further details scape me, particularly how the server knows that the TiddlyWiki file is being save.

[5] https://gist.github.com/jimfoltz/ee791c1bdd30ce137bc23cce826096da

Any corrections on my understanding so far, hints or pointers on how to get something similar with Pharo would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Offray

I plan to have a look at it and implement a backend in pharo for tiddlywiki but time is really sparse right now. So I get back to you when I have something. And a way to improve the usage of markdown in the tiddlers would also be something good.

I'm now using the Markdown plugin recommended by Nicolas[1], instead of the GFM plugin as It works better and supports transclusion. It's based on Remarkable so I think that it would be able to support no only transclusion but macros, so we could have the best of both worlds (now I'm mixing TiddlyWikis native WikiText syntax for macros and advanced features and using Markdown plugin for "legacy" content coming in this format).

[1] https://twitter.com/NicolasPetton/status/1353471645718089728

Cheers,

Offray

I plan to have a look at it and implement a backend in pharo for tiddlywiki but time is really sparse right now. So I get back to you when I have something. And a way to improve the usage of markdown in the tiddlers would also be something good.

Norbert

Am 25.01.2021 um 02:43 schrieb Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

In a previous mail I told how our last semester explorations in the local community  building, deploying and teaching Brea[1][2], a Pharo powered tool between a Static Site Generator and a headless CMS, led me towards TiddlyWiki[3] as the more dynamic counterpart of such deployments and today we a a little chat[4] with Norbert about trying to avoid the over complication of NodeJS and replacing that with a pretty simple Pharo based counterpart.

[1] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/
[2] https://code.tupale.co/Offray/Brea
[3] https://tiddlywiki.com/
[4] https://twitter.com/NorbertHartl/status/1353319130804465668

I would like to start with something like tw5-server.rb [5], which is a pretty small Ruby script (46 lines) based in the Webrick and fileutils libraries, using the Pharo counterparts (Zinc? Teapot?). I don't have experience in Ruby, but maybe something in the list can help. It seems that the script opens a folder in the local file system and serves the files there. One of them is a TiddlyWiki file and once it is served (at port 8000) the class DefaultFileHandler (lines 18 to 35) takes care of saving the file and sucesive copies of it. Particularly lines 25 and 26 create a backup of the body in the current file and updates the Tiddly file body with new versions as saving is done in the web user interface. But further details scape me, particularly how the server knows that the TiddlyWiki file is being save.

[5] https://gist.github.com/jimfoltz/ee791c1bdd30ce137bc23cce826096da

Any corrections on my understanding so far, hints or pointers on how to get something similar with Pharo would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Offray