Firstly this simple walkthough was inspired by a conversation with Tobias Beer in this post. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywikidev/s20g1snJQTY
Any detailed advice on how to tackle getting such a plugin up and running > on the tw5 front is very welcome, e.g. a step 1 to 10 kinda tutorial that > explains the process roughly outlined with whatever details are rather > essential. > I realised that someone should have a go at doing this. Secondly, I am not a technical writer, so if you find problems please don't hesitate to comment so I can amend the walkthrough and improve it. ---------------------------------------- To get started one must first install Node.Js on your computer and download TW5 from Jeremy's github repository. There are many ways to do these things, this was the way that worked for me when I tried it. 1. Download and install Node.JS from http://nodejs.org/ 2. If using a Windows computer, download and install github for Windows .. http://windows.github.com/ or Cygwin ... http://www.cygwin.com/ .. (The github or cygwin install lets you run the .SH scripts that Jeremy supplies for building new TW5 plugins and running TW5 as a local server.) 3. Download the TW5 repository at github using http://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/archive/master.zip .. (later on you can use Github properly to do this, but more on using github later perhaps) 4. Create a Tiddlywork directory in a place you are comfortable with (I chose the root of my D: drive) ... such as D:\tiddlywork 5. Copy the master.zip file you downloaded in step 4. to D:\tiddlywork 6. Extract the zip file you downloaded into D:\tiddlywork 7. You should end up with a directory called D:\tiddlywork\TiddlyWiki5-master\ ... I renamed that to d:\tiddlywork\TiddlyWiki5 8. While in the D:\tiddlywork directory make another folder called d:\tiddlywork\jermolene.github.com ... you could call this whatever you want, however that would mean altering some scripts (unadvisable at this stage). 9. Go to the start menu and under Node.js, click on *Node.JS command prompt* . 10. Move to the D:\tiddlywork\TiddlyWiki5\ Directory using cd D:\tiddlywork\TiddlyWiki5\ 11. If github is installed you can then enter* bld.sh* this will build all the TW5 basic Tiddlywiki's over in ... d:\tiddlywork\jermolene.github.com 12. If using Cygwin then the command to do this is* sh bld.sh* you need to precede all sh type files with the sh command if using cygwin 13. To test tw5 in server mode, run *serve.sh* and then go to a browser and enter http://localhost:8080/ to view a tiddlywiki running as its own webserver. If anyone else would like to test this and report back I can amend or add to it as required. It is all from memory as I am at work at the moment. I will try and add to this with instructions on making your first simple plugin example walkthrough later on. ---------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
