Massive Wiki Wednesday (US-EU), 2021-12-08

Topics

The key concept is "routes" and "routing".
- cf. "endpoint" ; they are both about the same thing, just from the inside or outside
Express (Node) routing: https://expressjs.com/en/guide/routing.html
Flask (Python) routing: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/quickstart/#routing
The next biggest concept is templating (and relatedly, serving static files)
https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/quickstart/#rendering-templates

Python Flask app
propose a "standard" localhost URL so we can put the URL in an Obsidian page
the app can show recent changes from many vaults
- config file (and/or Obsidian central list of vaults) that says which vaults to list in the app
- each vault can have either Syncthing, Git, or filesystem recent changes (or maybe multiple methods?)
- question: can we auto-detect sync mecha
the app shows recent changes from one vault at a time
use Obsidian URI Scheme to make links back into Obsidian pages
- add a config flag to enable or disable generation of links back into Obsidian

route ideas:

example for Sync+Swim: http://localhost:8385/page-news/sync+swim

getting a list of vaults that Obsidian knows about: