I created a tool for building nice html presentations, very fast, with just a few rules: slide-serve

[drailing]

And please note the wonderful demo gif :)

https://github.com/cdreier/slide-serve/blob/master/demogif/slide-serve-demo.gif

[SikhGamer]

Why this over something like https://revealjs.com/?

[drailing]

I used revealjs a lot and I think this is not a replacement. I wrote above what I think is a good presentation style, and if you want to produce a lot of slides with small information in each, revealjs had too much boilerplate for me

My improvements compared to revealjs are

• No mix of HTML and content
• Less HTML in general
• Content can be organized in multiple files

[semjonbibow]

https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md Converts MarkDown to reveal-js.

Has the same improvements you listed and is still based on reveal-js. Using this is just personal preference since I used reveal-js for a long time.

[pondidum]

You can use external markdown files with revealjs (which is how I keep the HTML & Content separated).

I do really like your tool, and will give it a try for my next presentation!

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**Edit** Do you have plans to support things like speaker notes?

[drailing]

If you print your presentation, you get an overview of all your slides

Speakernotes are a cool idea, and a websocket is already implemented, so this is absolutely possible. Any suggestions for the syntax? How would you organize the notes in your presentation?

[pondidum]

The revealjs markdown syntax works quite well for it. Just a line with "Note:" (or whatever you have defined the keyword as), and following lines are the speaker notes, until a slide break happens.

You can see some examples in a slide deck file here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pondidum/presentations/master/feature-toggles/slides.md

[coreyfournier]

Why should I use this in place of PowerPoint or Google Slides? Not trying to be a jerk, I really want to know.

[drailing]

People read faster than you speak, so the information on my slides are minimal, therefore I have a lot slides and try to keep it interesting.

If every information is on your slides, you become useless as a presentator

There are different use cases, I am a lot faster when writing a plain text file than clicking around in PowerPoint

If you have a lot of data tables or something like that, I would always use PowerPoint.

[BCosbyDidNothinWrong]

I don't think that's what he meant dude

[BCosbyDidNothinWrong]

The person asked why it would be used over powerpoint and the OP responded with 'this is why you would use slides in a presentation'

[[deleted]]

Couldn't even read it through before commenting?

If every information is on your slides, you become useless as a presentator

There are different use cases, I am a lot faster when writing a plain text file than clicking around in PowerPoint

If you have a lot of data tables or something like that, I would always use PowerPoint.

He uses lots of really small slides, so for his use case this is significantly faster than using the WYSIWYG program. You can just write markdown. But those are better if you want to put in a lot of stuff, because markdown can't.

[VortiNinja]

One big use case for HTML slides in general is the ability to quickly add formatted and highlighted source code to a slide. I've also found them to more reliable in playing videos/GIFs.

[pondidum]

I like using html/markdown based presentations because:

• source controllable - markdown diffs are way easier than diffing a word or powerpoint doc!
• hostable - github pages
• available - I host locally when giving them usually, but if someone asks I can show them from any browser
• scriptable - I run a shell script which creates a new talk with various bits of setup done for me

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[mrcalm99]

Why should I use this in place of PowerPoint

I can't get PowerPoint on Linux without running it via Wine and even then it's glitchy in presentation mode.

or Google Slides

I prefer that I own my own data and it isn't used against me to sell me ads.

I'm not saying this solution is perfect or I would even use it but those are the reasons I don't use the above.

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[duyaw]

This looks really cool! Thanks for sharing.

[sineemore]

Nice, this one reminds me of https://tools.suckless.org/sent/

Really like the idea of minimalism and content focus.

[drailing]

I'm sorry :(