Hello everyone, As some of you know, TiddlyServer uses a "bundled" version of TiddlyWiki intended to improve startup times and reduce file count. I've finally gotten my build script to the point that I am confident that it works right and I've uploaded the bundles to GitHub in two formats -- the current plugin.info version and a second one that is simply a JavaScript file that calls $tw.preloadTiddler with the plugin tiddler text.
There are several benefits to this system. 1. Because they are being served over a CDN, they are gzip compressed, which lowers the file size significantly. 2. They are also properly cached by the browser and loaded from cache the next time the page is loaded. 3. It uses GitHub tags to GUARANTEE that the file will never change, so you can safely use the integrity attribute which will save a checksum of the script file in your HTML file itself without fear of it ever breaking. 4. If enough people start using this system, it will significantly improve performance for everyone, because once a plugin version is downloaded for one site, it is downloaded for all sites. And honestly, the core is 2MB so even if that is the main one, it will definitely speed things up. 5. Also, I'm sure the CDN supports all the latest features in connection pooling and such features, so I'm guessing the browser can easily batch requests for different plugins without too much trouble. Files that get used more -- such as core -- get served quicker. I really want your input on all of this. This is definitely a very big concept but it also has some very epic benefits. Do remember that this is mainly intended for public-facing "production" wikis (which is a big area that a lot of us are trying to explore) but it should work fine anywhere there is an internet connection. The current setup that I have is not that user friendly. It would make a lot more sense to publish the various plugins on NPM where I'm assuming the version numbers could be controlled easier, but this will help us get started. So please offer technical suggestions and ideas. I really want to hear all of your opinions on this. The performance benefits are pretty major. https://github.com/Arlen22/TiddlyWiki5-production Enjoy! Arlen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAJ1vdSQ3sKgtwpyfVu2FfqmZDh-FUho%2B%3DQzvP827yxBtGfvRmQ%40mail.gmail.com.
