Reveal.js super quick

Using visual tools for quick presentations is overkill, in my opinion. If you give different presentations weekly, please try a text-based tool; I promise you won’t regret it. There are many options. In this short post, I will discuss Reveal.js because it is part of my toolchain.

Reveal.js is an open-source JavaScript library for creating presentations using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Super quickstart

Most tutorials will tell you to clone reveal.js and go from there. Don’t do that. That is insane. Use Pandoc instead.

What is pandoc

Pandoc is an open-source command line tool for converting documents between various formats. It supports conversion between over 20 different document processing languages. Good luck: https://pandoc.org/installing.html

Markdown Template

Here’s a template to make things simpler. Save it as slides.md so that the following command works out of the box.

---
title: Your Title Here
subtitle: Your Subtitle Here
author: Your Name Here
date: Date Here
output:
  revealjs::revealjs_presentation:
    theme: night
---

# Introduction

- Introduction slide 1
- Introduction slide 2

---

# Conclusion

- Conclusion slide 1
- Conclusion slide 2

Using Pandoc to convert from Markdown to Reveal.js

Run the command below to get the index.html with your presentation.

pandoc -t revealjs -s -o index.html slides.md -V revealjs-url=https://unpkg.com/reveal.js/