New backend for TiddlyWiki5 based on Firebase

[Peter Neumark]

Hi All!

I've been using TiddlyWiki5 with Google Firebase for over a year now. It's stable enough to use on a daily basis, so I've open sourced it here: https://github.com/neumark/tw5-firebase

There's a detailed walkthrough of how to create your own instance with lots of screenshots. The entire process takes less than 30 minutes: https://neumark.github.io/tw5-firebase/

Please consider this version a proof of concept rather than a polished product! My focus was on multi-device or small-team collaboration:

- Basic authorization (bags have an access policy determining who can read / write them).

- Multiple wikis can be hosted under a single firebase account.

- It uses Firebase's built-in social auth to log in users.

- Tiddlers are written individually with locking, preventing users overwriting each others' updates.

Please let me know what you think.

Ping me if you want access to a test wiki running on firebase or try it out under your own account for free.

All the best,

Peter

[Mat]

Hi Peter

The zero response you're getting is probably because this group has been replaced; TW dev discussions are held at https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/discussions

Your project looks interesting and you've certainly made an impressive presentation! Forgive me for asking the stupid question but, what benefit does it bring? (I did say my question was stupid). It seems to make TW into an app... so why is that better than just having vanilla TW? Your comments here imply login featuers for multi user collaboration (that's of course a big deal). It seems one has to accept some kind of payment plan for Blaze upon which it is based?

(Maybe better reply, and repost, in the new dev forum?)

Thank you!

<:-)