Awesome

[younes0]

Just spent hours looking for a wiki supporting dropbox/markdown and came across your repo.
I would love to use it but there's no indications if it's product ready

[chmllr]

Hi, did you visit https://wikizen.click ? Or what do you mean with product ready?

[younes0]

Hey! sorry I meant production ready
Well I don't see any setup instructions, I'd like to use it in my own instance so I can use the dropbox persistence (which doesn't work in your demo intentionally, right?)

[chmllr]

I see. Well it is not my first priority to provide WikiZen as an installable package. And anyway, why would you want to run it locally? There is no backend, it is just a static JS site and your data is stored in your Dropbox. So what would you win running it locally? You'll definitely loose all updates and bug fixes.

In genral you can take a look into the source code and into Makefile to figure out how to run it. You'll also need to run a static http server in the folder with index.html and other files.

I'd also appreciate any contribution to installation documentation.

[younes0]

You're right. I think I misunderstood something since the dropbox persistence didn't work for me, I thought that you made it intentionally on your website. Did I miss something there?

[chmllr]

Could you please describe what problems exactly do you experience with the Dropbox persistence?

[younes0]

You're using the Dropbox Datastore API, hence the missing markdown files in my Dropbox folder, got it finally!

Why not making another Dropbox persistence that uses the Core API to write Markdown files in the Dropbox folder?

[chmllr]

Well in this case WikiZen would be potentially able to modify any files in your Dropbox. I'm not sure if I'd use such an app by myself.

[chmllr]

But what notice is that maybe the description of WikiZen is a little bit misleading. I think I'll improve the description later.

[younes0]

You can restrict to your app specific folder: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/devguide#app-permissions

App folder

A dedicated folder named after your app is created within the Apps folder of a user's Dropbox. Your app gets read and write access to this folder only and users can provide content to your app by moving files into this folder.Your app can also read and write datastores using the Datastore API.

[chmllr]

Thanks a lot. I missed this somehow. I will test this, because I'd definitely prefer this over datastores.

[younes0]

You're very welcome