[TW5] Help for beginner in Node.js

[jimb...@hotmail.com]

Hello
I've updated my wiki to 5.1.5. and I have decided to use in future the node version of TiddlyWiki. However, when I try to boot the server I get an error message I can't decipher:

TypeError: Cannot call method 'invokeHook' of undefined
    at openStartupTiddlers ($:/core/modules/startup/story.js:122:24)
    at Object.exports.startup ($:/core/modules/startup/story.js:33:2)
    at $tw.boot.executeNextStartupTask (/Users/jim/local/lib/node_modules/tiddlywiki/boot/boot.js:1814:10)
    at $tw.boot.executeNextStartupTask (/Users/jim/local/lib/node_modules/tiddlywiki/boot/boot.js:1818:21)
    at $tw.boot.executeNextStartupTask (/Users/jim/local/lib/node_modules/tiddlywiki/boot/boot.js:1818:21)
    at $tw.boot.executeNextStartupTask (/Users/jim/local/lib/node_modules/tiddlywiki/boot/boot.js:1818:21)
    at $tw.boot.startup (/Users/jim/local/lib/node_modules/tiddlywiki/boot/boot.js:1780:11)
    at /Users/jim/local/lib/node_modules/tiddlywiki/boot/boot.js:1891:12
    at $tw.boot.decryptEncryptedTiddlers (/Users/jim/local/lib/node_modules/tiddlywiki/boot/boot.js:1359:2)
    at $tw.boot.boot (/Users/jim/local/lib/node_modules/tiddlywiki/boot/boot.js:1889:11)

What am I doing wrong? It is working for the 5.1.4. version of the wiki. Thank you for your help.

Jim

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Jim

The error message means that the hook mechanism hasn't been properly initialised before use. It's not obvious how that could happen.

Can you show the command you're using the start the server? Do you get the same problem with a freshly initialised wiki folder? Also, what operating system are you using?

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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[jimb...@hotmail.com]

Hello

Thank you for your answer.

I am using a mac 10.10.1.
Starting with a freshly initialised folder, i.e.

$ tiddlywiki nodeFolder --init server

and importing the wiki in html, i.e.

$ tiddlywiki nodeFolder --load /path/to/wiki515.html

triggers this result, when

$ tiddlywiki nodeFolder --server

I noticed that

$ tiddlywiki --version

returns 5.0.16-beta. This is probably the problem? Updating with

sudo npm update -g tiddlywiki

doesn't change the version.

Thanks
Jim

[Suzanne McHale]

I am getting a similar error too (using the portable Node.js version on my D: drive - installed using the instructions at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118970/wiki/tw5tribalknowledge.html). I managed to import my tiddlywiki, but all I get is an "unable to connect" error page in Firefox when I try going to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ .

D:\NodejsPortable>tiddlywiki starwarrior --server

$:/core/modules/startup/story.js:122
        storyList = $tw.hooks.invokeHook("th-opening-default-tiddlers-list",stor
yList
                              ^

TypeError: Cannot call method 'invokeHook' of undefined
    at openStartupTiddlers ($:/core/modules/startup/story.js:122:24)
    at Object.exports.startup ($:/core/modules/startup/story.js:33:2)

    at $tw.boot.executeNextStartupTask (D:\NodejsPortable\node_modules\tiddlywik
i\boot\boot.js:1827:10)
    at $tw.boot.executeNextStartupTask (D:\NodejsPortable\node_modules\tiddlywik
i\boot\boot.js:1831:21)
    at $tw.boot.executeNextStartupTask (D:\NodejsPortable\node_modules\tiddlywik
i\boot\boot.js:1831:21)
    at $tw.boot.executeNextStartupTask (D:\NodejsPortable\node_modules\tiddlywik
i\boot\boot.js:1831:21)
    at $tw.boot.startup (D:\NodejsPortable\node_modules\tiddlywiki\boot\boot.js:
1793:11)
    at D:\NodejsPortable\node_modules\tiddlywiki\boot\boot.js:1904:12
    at $tw.boot.decryptEncryptedTiddlers (D:\NodejsPortable\node_modules\tiddlyw
iki\boot\boot.js:1368:2)
    at $tw.boot.boot (D:\NodejsPortable\node_modules\tiddlywiki\boot\boot.js:190
2:11)

On Friday, December 5, 2014 9:23:34 AM UTC+11, jimb...@hotmail.com wrote:

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Suzanne, Jim,

Very strange. How did you install TiddlyWiki? I'm confused that Jim is seeing the version reported as 5.0.16 when the generated error message could only be generated by the latest 5.1.6 version.

It's possible that you've got multiple versions of TiddlyWiki installed?

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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[jimb...@hotmail.com]

Hi Jeremy

You were probably right by your assumption. I've made a complete reinstall of node and tiddlywiki. Now it works.

Thank you very much for your patient help
Jim

[Suzanne McHale]

Still not working for me - I can install Node.js portable (as described at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118970/wiki/tw5tribalknowledge.html#Getting%20Started%20with%20Node.js%20on%20Windows) - I'm using Windows 8.1 - but then get the message 'tiddlywiki' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. if I try to import my own Tiddlywiki (which is the latest TW5 version). An alternative method I tried was to install a blank TW then import my own wiki through that, but I could not open the page address (http://127.0.0.1:8080/ or http://127.0.0.1:8081/) in my browser. So I am stuck :-( - I am just muddling through and don't have much idea of what I am doing! (I would just like to export my TW as separate .html files.)

[Tobias Beer]

 Hi Suzanne,

 

Node.js portable

Chances are that with a portable install you don't get any global environment variables set.

So, I presume you can...

• either figure out which ones are missing and set them
  
• call both with a fully qualified path: "c:/foo/bar/node c:/foo/bar/baz/tiddlywiki ..."

Not sure how one could easily define session variables so that you don't need to specify the full path(s).

Best wishes, Tobias.

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Suzanne

It does sound as though you've got more than one version of TiddlyWiki installed (5.0.16-beta was released at the beginning of September this year).

Maybe you can search your filing system for files called "tiddlywiki.js" to track them down?

Best wishes

Jeremy.

[Suzanne McHale]

Hi Jeremy,
I have tried over and over again in the last week, but it is still not working! I am just going in circles. I can get node.js installed and going initially, but if I close the command window and try to start again later, the tiddlywiki command isn't recognized ('tiddlywiki' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file). I also tried installing the normal/non-portable version, but still no success (from my latest attempt):

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Ron>npm install -g tiddlywiki
C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\npm\tiddlywiki -> C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\npm\
node_modules\tiddlywiki\tiddlywiki.js
tiddl...@5.1.5 C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\tiddlywiki

C:\Users\Ron>tiddlywiki --version
5.1.5

C:\Users\Ron>tiddlywiki starwarrior --init server
Error: Wiki folder is not empty

C:\Users\Ron>tiddlywiki starwarrior --server
Serving on 127.0.0.1:8080
(press ctrl-C to exit)
^CTerminate batch job (Y/N)? n

C:\Users\Ron>--rendertiddlers [!is[system]] $:/core/templates/static.tiddler.htm
l static text/plain
'--rendertiddlers' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Ron>

I am following the steps in the TW5 instructions exactly, so I'm at a loss as to what to do next :-(. Maybe there is a program or file missing? (There are no other files of tiddlywiki.js aside from that in the C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\tiddlywiki folder.)

[Eric Shulman]

On Monday, December 15, 2014 4:46:17 PM UTC-8, Suzanne McHale wrote:

I can get node.js installed and going initially, but if I close the command window and try to start again later, the tiddlywiki command isn't recognized ('tiddlywiki' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file).

...

C:\Users\Ron>--rendertiddlers [!is[system]] $:/core/templates/static.tiddler.htm
l static text/plain
'--rendertiddlers' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Obviously, there is no command line program named "--rendertiddlers".

"--rendertiddlers" is a command line *parameter* for tiddlywiki... it is not a stand-alone command itself.  Thus, you need to prefix the command with "tiddlywiki", like this:

tiddlywiki --rendertiddlers [!is[system]] $:/core/templates/static.tiddler.html static text/plain

I am following the steps in the TW5 instructions exactly, so I'm at a loss as to what to do next :-(. Maybe there is a program or file missing? (There are no other files of tiddlywiki.js aside from that in the C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\tiddlywiki folder.)

I am assuming that you were looking at this tiddler:

   http://tiddlywiki.com/#RenderTiddlersCommand

which documents just one command line function, "--rendertiddlers" that can be used with the main tiddlywiki core run-time.  See

   http://tiddlywiki.com/#Using%20TiddlyWiki%20on%20Node.js

for links to other command line functions.

hope this helps,

enjoy,

-e

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[Suzanne McHale]

I finally seem to have got results! :-) I had to chdir to the directory where my TW folder was, then put tiddlywiki in front of the --rendertiddlers command as suggested. (I also have to stop the node.js server as I can't type anything in the command line while it is going - is that usual?) I've now got a lot of separate html files in the \output\static directory. Thanks for the help!

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Suzanne

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Suzanne McHale <kosmo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I finally seem to have got results! :-) I had to chdir to the directory where my TW folder was, then put tiddlywiki in front of the --rendertiddlers command as suggested.

Great, glad you're up and running. You can avoid the chdir by explicitly specifying the wiki folder - for example:

tiddlywiki /path/to/my/wikifolder --rendertiddlers [!is[system]] $:/core/templates/static.tiddler.html static text/plain

 

(I also have to stop the node.js server as I can't type anything in the command line while it is going - is that usual?)

Yes, that's right. You can open another command prompt for typing commands while TiddlyWiki is running. Don't open the same wiki folder in more than one command line, though; the two instances of TiddlyWiki will interfere with one another

 

I've now got a lot of separate html files in the \output\static directory. Thanks for the help!

Excellent, I'm sorry it took so long to figure out what was going on,

Best wishes

Jeremy