A tool to create slides using Markdown easily for you

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SurveyJS: Build JSON-Driven Surveys and Forms with Full Data Control
Add the SurveyJS UI components to your JS app (React/Angular/Vue3). Securely collect and analyze data without sending it to 3rd-party servers. Fully customizable, works with any backend, and ideal for data-heavy apps. Learn more.
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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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  1. reveal.js

    The HTML Presentation Framework

    It's great to see more tools and options in this space.

    I like using reveal.js[1] for presentations, which Pandoc supports. I generally create presentations by writing markdown and then passing it to Pandoc[2] to build a reveal.js presentation for me.

    [1] https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js

    [2] https://pandoc.org/

  2. SurveyJS

    SurveyJS: Build JSON-Driven Surveys and Forms with Full Data Control. Add the SurveyJS UI components to your JS app (React/Angular/Vue3). Securely collect and analyze data without sending it to 3rd-party servers. Fully customizable, works with any backend, and ideal for data-heavy apps. Learn more.

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  3. fusuma

    Discontinued ✍️ Fusuma makes slides with Markdown easily.

  4. gist-reveal

    Render gist markdown URL using reveal.js

    You can create the entire presentation in markdown with reveal.js too https://github.com/rectalogic/gist-reveal

  5. asciidoctor-web-pdf

    Convert AsciiDoc documents to PDF using web technologies

    Just use asciidoc.

    E.g.

    - https://github.com/Mogztter/asciidoctor-web-pdf/tree/master/...

  6. reveal-md

    reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file

    I've been using this: https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md

    which is only markdown on top of reveal.js, quite cool

  7. cleaver

    30-second slideshows for hackers

    https://github.com/jdan/cleaver

    Here's a similar project that I've used in the past and liked a lot

  8. haskset

    Convert presentations written for Deckset to be compatible with conversion via pandoc and reveal.js to HTML

    As a Deckset user, my only gripe (minor, and usually not a big deal) is not having an HTML version generated by it (this is why I wrote this CLI tool [1])

    [1]: Haskset: https://github.com/rberenguel/haskset

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  10. Code-Server

    VS Code in the browser

    I hadn't heard of this! Thank you! My VSCode experience is primarily "VSCode" (not Codium) w/ the MS Remote extensions and looking at code-server for its more unique capabilities. Definitely going to look into this and adopt it where I can.

    FYI, it looks like the code-server devs have some concerns about # of extensions and matching the MS market: https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1473 . I'm not too worried about that for myself though.

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