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

Topics

• Recent Changes for Massive Wiki
• "Petard" app
  • "hoisted" method
• Micro Frameworks

Micro Frameworks

• 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

"Page News", a recent changes app

• 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:

• /
• /page-news/
• /page-news/?type=[syncthing,git,filesystem]

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

getting a list of vaults that Obsidian knows about:

• check the code in Obsidian Settings Manager