Can TW5-BOB be used straight from hosted on GitHub, with autosaving, from all devices?

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Can TW5-BOB be used straight from hosted on GitHub, with autosaving, from all devices?

UtopistList opened this issue 2 years ago · 3 comments

I have set up TW-BOB5 on Windows desktop and it works well, but how can I access it also from mobile (Android), the same instance, via the cloud (so that I don't need to keep my desktop with me or turned on)?

Answer 1 · 2022-10-04T09:23:16.000Z

Bob can't run off of Github, it needs a server that can run node. I think that the simplest way to have Bob accessible from the internet is to have it installed on something like a digital ocean droplet with Nginx handling the authentication. I am working on making it easy to set up but I have been busy with other projects for a while.

Answer 2 · 2022-10-04T23:19:04.000Z

Something maybe I don't fully understand in how it works. The reason I thought it should work from GitHub because NodeJS doesn't necessarily need to be installed, it's sufficient to have it unpacked it in a folder to get TiddlyWiki run off of it, as portable. That's why I thought that it should run from GitHub as portable, just like it can run from a folder that is in Windows or Linux desktop, without installing NodeJS on the OS. Could you elaborate why it wouldn't work the same portable way as from a folder in a desktop OS? Thanks, have a good night.

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Answer 3 · 2022-10-13T19:20:32.000Z

NodeJS has to be running, github doesn't run any of the code, it just stores it. NodeJS can be portable, but it still need to be running on something.