Imagine a wiki that is just a single HTML file. One that you can deploy anywhere: view locally, share in local network, put in any web server. No databases, no user management, no moving pieces that cause headaches. Feather Wiki is a really cool project that I ran into a couple of weeks back. It’s a wiki project that fits the entire wiki, including all the content, in a single HTML file. You can upload it to a server (or use locally), make changes in browser and when you’re done with changes, you download a new version of itself with the changes and you can deploy that to update it. Or like the project describes itself: Feather Wiki is an HTML document containing a self-replicating JavaScript application for creating wiki-style websites whose content is also stored in the output. You can edit the wiki in browser just like any other wiki but to permanently save the changes, you need to download a new copy of the entire wiki with new changes and upload that to your web server. While…
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Nice! As soon as I started reading this I thought "sounds like TiddlyWiki". Then I read a little further and discovered that it's sort-of a spiritual successor to it.
This is really cool! I don't have a practical application for this (yet) but happy to learn about it.
it's very clever. Like you, right now I can't think why I need it but you never know.
@bubbles
@daj Yeah I tested it out and it works as advertised. I don't know anything about customizing it (appearance, etc.) because the code looks unintelligible to me.