Replace the playwright module for easy packaging as an executable

[Zacharia2]

Can the playwright module be replaced to facilitate packaging into a single executable. Simplify the difficulty for people to use it.

[Zacharia2]

@Jermolene hi, I want to package it as an executable file for people to use it easily. Here is the address of my project. But I have a problem, as mentioned above. playwright module is really too big to wrap in. So is there a better way to replace it?

https://github.com/tiddly-gittly/Epub2twpub

If you look closely you will find that yes, I am using the source code from this twpub repository. Not a single pen has been touched. Just made a wrapper to use.

[Jermolene]

Hi @Zacharia2 it's great to see your work with TWPub, I am glad you are enjoying it.

TWPub uses Playwright to parse and render the HTML files extracted from EPUB files to ensure the highest compatibility between TWPub and browser-based EPUB readers. It might be possible to rewrite TWPub to instead use a JS-based HTML and CSS parser; at the time I started TWPub I couldn't find a library with the needed functionality but there might be something better available now.

[Jermolene]

cc @xcazin who might be interested in this thread

[Zacharia2]

@Jermolene Perhaps use the tool here: https://github.com/syntax-tree

[Jermolene]

@Jermolene Perhaps use the tool here: https://github.com/syntax-tree

Thanks @Zacharia2. The API of rehype is very different from the DOM that TWPub currently uses so I think it might be a lot of work to convert it. JSDom might be a simpler migration.

[Zacharia2]

hi @Jermolene I completed the replacement of playwright and I used JSDOM. It looks the same as it did without the replacement. This is my work, and I have added some comments to the code.

Packaged program link: https://github.com/tiddly-gittly/Epub2twpub/releases

[Zacharia2]

On a whim, use JSDOM, so you can make a nodejs TiddlyWik plug-in.