A Yeoman generator for the awesome Reveal.js presentation framework.
Usage
Creating a new presentation
Install: npm install -g generator-reveal
Make a new directory, and cd
into it:
mkdir my-new-project && cd $_
Run yo reveal
and start building your presentation.
After all files are created you can view your slides with grunt
:
grunt serve
Then, create further slides with yo reveal:slide more-content
. See below for available options. When you want to export your presentation to some static HTML server, you can type grunt dist
to have all your relevant files saved to the dist
directory.
Working on an existing presentation
If you are checking out an existing presentation to do some work on it, make sure to install the required dependencies:
cd my-existing-project
npm install && bower install
Now you should be able to view the slides again with grunt
:
grunt serve
Generators
Available generators:
Slide
Generates a Slide file.
Example:
yo reveal:slide "Slide Title"
Produces slides/slide-title.html
:
<h2>Slide Title</h2>
<p>This is a new slide</p>
And the slide filename will be added to your slides/list.json
file.
[
"index.md",
"slide-title.html"
]
Vertical Slides
In order to add vertical slides, you can nest an array inside slides/list.json
[
"index.md",
[
"vertical-html.html",
"vertical-markdown.md"
],
[
"vertical-html-2.html",
"vertical-markdown-2.md"
],
"the-end.md"
]
Simple (Image) Slides
Sometimes you just want a slide with a background image. That's okay, a slide object does not need a filename.
[
"index.md",
{
"attr": {
"data-background": "http://example.com/image.png"
}
}
]
Options
Markdown
Invoked with --markdown
yo reveal:slide "Slide Title" --markdown
Produces slides/slide-title.md
## Slide Title
This is a new slide
Attributes
Invoked with --attributes
yo reveal:slide "Slide Title" --attributes
adds a slide Object
with an attr
key to your slides/list.json
file. Attributes will be passed to section
element containing the slide.
[
"index.md",
{
"filename": "slide-title.md",
"attr": {
"data-background": "#ff0000"
}
}
]
<section data-markdown="slides/slide-title.md" data-background="#ff0000"></section>
Speaker Notes
Invoked with --notes
yo reveal:slide "Slide Title" --notes
Produces slides/slide-title.html
:
<h2>Slide Title</h2>
<p>This is a new slide</p>
<aside class="notes">
Put your speaker notes here.
You can see them pressing 's'.
</aside>
All three options maybe combined, e.g.
yo reveal:slide "Markdown Slide With Notes And Section-Attributes" --notes --attributes --markdown
Resources
If your presentation requires specific resources that you would like included
with your project, place them in the resources directory. These assets will be
included in the distribution and available for access at the path
resources/asset_name.ext
.
Github Pages Deployment
With the help of Grunt Build Control, generator-reveal
can deploy your presentation to Github Pages easily. All you have to do is
- Set your username and repository name when you call
yo reveal
- Create and configure your remote Github repository for the presentation
- Push your first commit
- Deploy with
grunt deploy
If everything goes right, grunt deploy
will build and push your presentation to a gh-pages git branch. Just give it a couple of minutes, fire up a browser and go to http://username.github.io/repositoryname to see your brand new presentation.
Customisation
To change the options of the whole presentation, such as the theme used,
transition effect etc. consult the
Reveal.js documentation.
An important difference, though, is that you should not edit the index.html
file directly as it gets overwritten as you add presentation content
whenever a new grunt build is triggered.
You should instead edit the templates/_index.html
file, which is used as a
template for the automatically generated index.html
.
Highlight.js Syntax Themes
The generated presentation app includes the Highlight.js Syntax Themes as a dependency, allowing you to change the syntax theme.
The available syntax themes can be found in the bower_components/highlightjs/styles
folder. Selecting a new syntax theme can be done by changing the stylesheet reference in the templates/_index.html
file:
<!-- For syntax highlighting -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="bower_components/highlightjs/styles/monokai_sublime.css">