auto-reveal

The command-line interface for reveal.js presentations.

Create presentations from Markdown files and let auto-reveal worry about configuration, themes and setup so you can focus on your content.

Installation

# Create an empty node project
npm init
# Add auto-reveal
npm add auto-reveal

Add this to your package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "auto-reveal",
    "build": "auto-reveal build"
  }
}

Usage

In it's current iteration, auto-reveal expects markdown files in /slides and will output the presentation to /dist when running npm run build.

To get a live-reloading preview of your presentation, run npm run start.

Slides

Markdown files are sorted alphabetically by filename. 001-slide.md will be the first slide, 002-slide.md the second, and so on.

Each Markdown file will generate a horizontal slide. If you want to create vertical slides, use \n---\n inside your Markdown files to separate them.

Themes

If you install any package prefixed with auto-reveal-theme-, it will automatically be used for your presentation. For example, to use the auto-reveal-theme-mainmatter theme, run:

npm add auto-reveal-theme-mainmatter

If no theme is installed, the default Reveal.js simple theme will be used by default.

Document Title

If your root folder contains a README.md and it starts with a first level headline, it will be used as the document title of the presentation. It falls back to the name field in package.json if no README.md is found.

Assets

Any assets you want to use in your presentation should be places inside /public. /public/images/foo.jpg can be referenced in your markdown as ![foo](images/foo.jpg).

Speaker notes

Any content after Note:\n will be treated as speaker notes and will be hidden from the presentation.

Additional Configuration

There is none (yet).

Development

Contributing

This project uses Vite under the hood. Linting and formatting is handled by Biome.

Building themes

There is no full guide yet. Please look at auto-reveal-theme-mainmatter for a working example.

A theme package for auto-reveal should contain:

• mandatory: package.json with these fields:
  • "main": "theme.css"
  • recommended: "keywords": ["auto-reveal-theme"]
• mandatoriy: theme.css with your theme styles
• optional: config.json with Reveal.js configuration options

License

auto-reveal is developed by and © Mainmatter GmbH and contributors. It is released under the MIT License.