[TW5]Create a simple environment to create plugins

[Alex]

Hi folks,

I'm a huge fan of tiddlywiki and I like the possibility to create my own plugins to personalize my wiki as I need it. But I got some problems creating further plugins.

I already create a little citation plugin with my firefox and the method mentioned on https://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#How%20to%20create%20plugins%20in%20the%20browser. It worked, but this method seems to be a bit hard to use and at one point I crashed my plugin-files and couldn't reset the directory.

At the moment im looking for a better and more comfortable method to create some plugins. Btw I'm not a huge network-admin, JS-hacker or TW-pro. I'm only a simple little peasant reading some stuff, trying some stuff and got some success. 

I read https://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#Developing%20plugins%20using%20Node.js%20and%20GitHub and already got some experience in using node.js and git on ubuntu. But even this method seems to be a bit complicated or maybe I'm not entirely getting it. Im switched from ubuntu to macOS now and as I watch some of the hangouts you TW-pro-guys are using macOS too. Can someone pease give me some hints how I can simply build my own little plugins (maybe even without direct git-connection) on my Mac. I thought about using a VM with the node.js-server, but the mechanism to create some plugins with node.-js-Server seems to be more complicated then the Firefox-method. So maybe there is some more detailed instruction of creating plugins with node.js?

I would be very happy if you could tell me some tipps or give me some tutorials in setting up my simple dev-environment.

Kind regards,

Alex

[Mark S.]

Do you know about Tinka? https://github.com/TinkaPlugin/Tinka, https://tinkaplugin.github.io/

-- Mark

[Steven Schneider]

Thanks Mark for reminding me (and others) about TinkaPlugin; it works great; I'd forgotten what it was called. //steve.

[Mat]

As Mark notes; Tinka is the easiest way. Here's a presentation on it.

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[Alex]

Wow, this is exactly what I needed. Thanks very much =)