Yeoman plugin generator

[Danielo Rodríguez]

Hey!

Hello everyone.

This thread is also on regular tiddlywiki group, but I post it here too for developers that may be navigating here.

During my first years of experience with tiddlywiki, the hardest part about plugin programming was how to start:

•  Which tools do I need ?
  
•  How should I configure them?
  
• What's the required folder structure?
• How is the structure of x tiddlywiki module? Which are the correct fields? Headers?
• Which names should I give to my files? Which extensions are acceptable ?
• How can I build an index page? Where can I publish it?
• Which plugins do I need ? What are the basic ones? 
• What are the available themes ?

etc, etc

I just published a yeoman generator for scaffolding tiddlywiki 5 plugins. It bootstraps a nodejs dev environment.

It includes the following features:

• Very comfortable developer experience
  
• Use latest Javascript ES6 features thanks to Babel
  
• Automatic github pages publishing using Travis-CI
  
• Easy management using npm scripts
  
• Automatic code rebuild and server restart on changes using nodemon
  
• Add plugins just by selecting them from a list of official ones
  
• Add themes just by selecting them from a list of official ones
  
• Add languages just by selecting them from a list of official ones
  
• Scaffolding of tiddlywiki's Javascript modules (just during project generation at the moment)
  
• startup module
• javascript macro
• javascript library

Future features

• Scaffolding of all kind of tiddlywiki Javascript modules using subgenerators at any time (not only during first bootstrap)
  

I know that one generator exists already, but this one is focused specifically on plugin development, while the other is more about a regular tiddlywiki on nodejs. 

I think both have their target audience.

I want to give special credit to Felixhayasi, the creator of tiddlymap. He is the author of the original gulpfile that is used.

For more information about installation and usage: https://www.npmjs.com/package/generator-tw5-plugin

For contributtions and feature requests: https://github.com/danielo515/generator-tw5-plugin

Hope more people starts developing plugins after this