Does someone have a build sequence for making plugins?

[Marxsal]

Sometimes you want to generate a plugin without having to build a wiki and then extract the plugin.

Is there a suggested sequence that could be inserted into tiddlywiki.info for making just the plugin?

Thanks

[clutterstack]

While waiting for an authoritative answer, and at the risk of misunderstanding your needs...would the library build target of the pluginlibrary edition do the job?

[Marxsal]

That sounds interesting. It's not mentioned on tiddlywiki.com. Do you have a link to it?

Offhand, I think making a library is more than I had in mind. I just want to generate a plugin without having to first generate a stand-alone file, and then navigate to the plugin, and then export it.

Thanks!

[kookma]

Hi @Marxsal - do you mean to generate a plugin inside browser using a single html file? If not using tiddlywiki commands with nodejs you can create a plugin without needing to generate a new single html file!
By the way I am adding a feature to Tiddler Commander which creates plugins on the fly. Just filter few tiddlers and press a button. I hope to publish in March.
In another thread I asked @Jermolene to advise how create another type of plugins like a presentation, a course note, an ebook, etc... If Jeremy decide on that I will ready to start to work on the Commander addon to generate a plugin or an e-book from a set of filtered tiddlers.

[Marxsal]

Hi @Marxsal - do you mean to generate a plugin inside browser using a single html file? If not using tiddlywiki commands with nodejs you can create a plugin without needing to generate a new single html file!

Do you mean with Tinka? Or is there some other way that I've missed? In my case, I want to use a text editor, so I do need node.

Thanks!

[Jermolene]

Hi @Marxsal try something like this:

tiddlywiki editions/prerelease/ --render "$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror" "[slugify[]addsuffix[.json]]" "text/plain" "$:/core/templates/json-tiddler"

The first argument is actually a filter, so you can easily save multiple plugins with a single command.

[Jermolene]

This version saves all the plugins in the wiki:

tiddlywiki editions/prerelease/ --render "[has[plugin-type]]" "[slugify[]addsuffix[.json]]" "text/plain" "$:/core/templates/json-tiddler"

[kookma]

tiddlywiki editions/prerelease/ --render "$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror" "[slugify[]addsuffix[.json]]" "text/plain" "$:/core/templates/json-tiddler"

Hi @Jermolene - what is "$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror" in the above command?

[Jermolene]

Hi @Jermolene - what is "$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror" in the above command?

It's the title of the plugin that you want to save.

[Marxsal]

tiddlywiki editions/prerelease/ --render "$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror" "[slugify[]addsuffix[.json]]" "text/plain" "$:/core/templates/json-tiddler"

The first argument is actually a filter, so you can easily save multiple plugins with a single command.

Thanks Jeremy! That's what I was looking for. Now if I only had some place to store these little bits of information ...