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Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

#6
+1 on Reveal. My last job required a fair amount of lessons with Jupyter. Reveal let me stay in the browser for both slides and code, and since it's all HTML, let me programmatically and quickly style the slides instead of WYSIWYGing in Keynote/PowerPoint.

Plus, I just ran the thing running in Docker with the actual slide HTML file in different host directories. Starting a presentation was just docker run -v.

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

#8
It's solid for creating basic slides quickly, and it supports exporting to PDF by having your printer print the PDF from a browser (it came out perfect).

Here's a 100+ slide PDF of a talk I did the other month with Reveal using an out of the box theme: https://github.com/nickjj/nyhackr-cli-dev-env/blob/master/ny...

The PDF doesn't show it but I had a lot of animated gifs (almost every terminal screenshot is animated). Overall it only took like 30 seconds to assemble each slide once I knew the content I wanted to have, since it's just HTML in the end.

It also has a nice a presenter layout to see slide notes. Perfect for live streaming a remote presentation while having notes off to the side that no one can see on the stream.

The best part about it is the standalone version doesn't require running a Node server. It's just basic HTML, CSS and JS that you can open straight in a browser.

I'll be using it for future presentations.

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

#9
Interesting, I just used deck.js (I think a similar thing) to create a presentation after decades of professional power-pointing.

I decided to create my presentation in a series of markdown files, then run a script to compile them into a single HTML+deck.js side deck.

The overhead of setting the thing up originally was worth it, the iteration on the presentation (eg ability to work on a single section in a markdown editor) was much faster.

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