Question: Did you ever try to develop with Winows 11?

[pmario]

Question: Did you ever try to develop with Windows 11?

Related to: #107 User colour setting.

I wanted to allow users to add a colour setting to their profile. Which imo seemed be a reasonable job for the first contribution.

Since I am new to the codebase and there is an endless list of 3rd party dependencies (which I do not know), I used Gemini CLI (free preview) to explain the structure and stuff used. -> That worked surprisingly well. It seems to understand the directory structure and what the app should do and how.

I also used Gemini CLI to do all the code and database changes, after explaining what it wants to do.
This worked -- somehow, but it almost broke it's neck -- I am on Windows.
It seems scripts.mjs calls unix specific commands that do not work on Windows.
So it needed to "modify" all the scripts first.
Which it also did (surprisingly), but I am not sure if everything was right

In the end

Gemini was able to update the database schema using prisma and the command line.
I was able to run the admin UI.
It seems it also did update the database in the right way.
I did check the database content using the DBVisualizer program. The database was updated with my user-color field
The server got a new route to get and set the data.

But then the Profile UI caused a problem, which in turn was impossible for me to track down. Free token limit was gone.

But I did still learn a lot about the project and Gemini.

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Mainly it is impossible to contribute for Windows users using it natively.

IMO that's a big problem, since 72% of PC users in the world use Windows. 12% MacOs and less than 4% user Linux based system. The rest use something else.

I do have WSL installed, and I am able to use it.
I could also use my Dell laptop, which runs Ubuntu pre-installed --- but I don't want to it only has a 13" screen :(

I want to be able to develop TW related stuff with my main Windows 11 Pro system, without breaking my neck.

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[pmario]

So it seems I need to use my Gemini CLI free tokens to make the repo "cross OS" ready. ... Which will be my next test ;)

[Arlen22]

I develop exclusively in WSL. Both Mac and Linux support bash.

My exact setup is that I have an SSH server running in WSL and then I use VSCode Remote-SSH to access it. Because I also often work remote, this allows me to have the WSL on my primary computer and just SSH into it from my laptop.

That being said, I wrote the scripts.mjs file for this exact purpose, and we should be able to figure out how to get everything into that in a way that supports all platforms with one script. Bash specific commands can be replaced with NodeJS fs calls.

My brother uses Gemini and I've been really impressed with how well it works. I use ChatGPT, but it's nowhere near as good for this type of thing. That being said, my favorite VSCode agent is Claude.

[Arlen22]

As long as the command payload (name, args, env) is only specified once, we can have it detect which platform it's on and adjust the execution according. I think I mostly just don't want to maintain two separate sets of commands.

[Arlen22]

I pushed an update that removes the platform specific commands. Feel free to try it out and let me know if it works.

[pmario]

package.json still contains a command that Powershell does not understand. It understands rm but not rm -rf

  "dev:init-store": "rm -rf dev/wiki/store && DEBUG= npm start init-store",

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Genesis reported some problems with linux directory mounts / links. Can you imagine, where that could come from?

[MagicJF]

Did you do something like this to interrogate about the codebase? (I am quite new to this aswell):

I also used Gemini CLI to do all the code and database changes, after explaining what it wants to do.

How did you do that? Directly by talking to the CLI and supervizing the changes through an IDE?

[pmario]

I do actually know TiddlyWiki very well and I did already play with MWS 2 month ago. So I did know the UI and the settings. ...

First

I told it to save the following things into its own global settings.

   * Coding Style:
       * Use double quotes for strings.
       * Use semicolons where needed.
       * Use tabs for indentation, especially for Javascript and TiddlyWiki code.
       * For TiddlyWiki code, use backticks for template literals.

   * File Handling:
       * I must respect the ignore rules from .gitignore, .jshintignore, and .npmignore files when interacting with the project.

   * Technical Expertise:
       * I am an expert in Javascript (up to ES2017), HTML, and TiddlyWiki.

You could add expert for prisma and react. ... It saves those infos globally in a Gemini.md file.

You can do this with: "please store the following settings to your global configuration file: ... "

Second

I did start inside the code directories packages\react-admin\src\components\ and let it start form there.

First Quest

can you tell me, which file defines the manage user and change password ui. Only search the dashboard directory

After the first answer I did study the code myself, to understand it. ...

Hope that makes sense.