noahlange / tiddlymark

Plugins and tasks for TiddlyWiki to improve Markdown support.
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tiddlymark

A server-based TiddlyWiki distribution for improved Markdown support. Obviously, this makes liberal use of code loosely adapted from TiddlyWiki's source.

Most of the codebase is a collection of TiddlyWiki plugins designed to make things a little friendlier for folks from the mainstream JS and web dev ecosystems.

The rest is composed of a few scripts to generate the plugin files and some half-baked TS types for TiddlyWiki as a whole.

Quick Start

  1. Clone repository:
$ git clone git@github.com:noahlange/tiddlymark.git
$ cd tiddlymark
  1. Install and generate plugins.
$ npm install
$ npm run dist
  1. Link boot script and start server.
$ npm link
$ tiddlymark ./wiki
  1. Optionally, symlink TiddlyWiki to make development easier.
$ ln -s "$(pwd)/node_modules/tiddlywiki" tiddlywiki

Running the server

I have no intention to get much of this running in a client-only context; it really operates with the assumption that you're running TiddlyWiki as a server on localhost.

Some peculiarities in how TiddlyWiki handles file loading/deserialization make custom deserializers inordinately difficult; these behaviors needed to be overwritten at the JS level.

To get everything running properly, you'll need to run the CLI script in bin/serve (or, after running npm link, use the tiddlymark command).

The updated CLI will add all the plugins in ./wiki/plugins, create a deserializer tiddler if necessary and boot the server, using the user's git username as the wiki's anonymous username.

Included plugins

Plugin
fs-plus Write metadata to YAML front-matter in .md files.
markdown-plus "Native" markdown renderer.
monaco Enable the monaco text editor.
pretty Prettify files on save.
sass Compile SASS files into a CSS stylesheet tiddler.

fs-plus

Adjusts the standard file-system adapter to embed metadata as YAML into the front-matter of Markdown files, which are then saved as .md. Also provides a deserializer that reads these files back into a format TiddlyWiki understands.

Helps manage some file clutter and (more importantly) gives us regular Markdown files. These can then be committed and viewed on GitHub or whatevered.

markdown-plus

Alternative parser/renderer that uses simple-markdown to build a JsonML tree instead of generating raw HTML. We can then take advantage of TiddlyWiki's HTML rendering features that would otherwise be unavailable to us—macros, link-checking, &c.

Also includes a few syntax extensions for:

Unlike the stock Markdown plugin, link targets and image sources don't require a preceding #.

sass

Compiles .scss files tagged with $:/tags/Stylesheet into a hidden CSS tiddler, which is then inserted into the DOM like other stylesheets. Requires a page template override to avoid inserting the SASS source as CSS.

pretty

Adds a save hook to run prettier on XML, Markdown, JavaScript/TypeScript and CSS/SCSS/LESS/PostCSS on save. There's a slight pause upon save, but I'll take that over having to manually reformat content and/or have it be ugly.

monaco

A pretty straightforward Monaco integration, which I (personally) like a lot more than Ace and CodeMirror.