Feather Wiki external core, aka "plumage and bones" on Tiddlyhost

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@simon

One question to ponder for TiddlyWiki hackers (making sure this is on topic… ) - An external core TiddlyWiki is still 107 KB. Could it be smaller? How and/or why not?

@simon, it looks like it can be smaller than 7KB.

Amazing! cdruan's external-js! The resulting tiddlywiki.html is only 7 kilobytes

Am I too late to be surprised? External JS — externalize TiddlyWiki core and plugins (cdruan.github.io) https://cdruan.github.io/tw-external-js/ Deleting to 7 lines of code works fine.

Loading tiddlywiki and plugins in html

made by cdruan’s external-js plugin. GitHub - cdruan/tw-external-js: TiddlyWiki plugin for externalizing TW core and plugins WARNING: Plugin for cdruan WARNING This plugin is intended for users with relevant knowledge only. Loaded with two lines of html code tw2pdf and gatha two plug-ins. Programmers can use this form to render data with tiddlywiki and its plugins. after the next save those elements will be gone. So this hack html is only used to render data. The purpose is just to publish …

$ curl -Ss https://cdruan.github.io/tw-external-js/ | wc -c
6787

In @cdruan’s html, I don’t see $:/boot/boot.js, so that must be externalized as well. Probably that is the reason for the size difference. I didn’t look into the details to see how tw-external-js accomplishes this.