A build-time tool for compiling HTML presentation decks.

Deck-o-tron makes it easier to produce HTML-based presentation decks that work with frameworks like Reveal.js. Rather than having to create and maintain a single, monolithic HTML file containing all of your presentation's slides, you can instead have individual files per slide. Deck-o-tron then takes care of assembling those individual files into the complete HTML document.

Deck-o-tron supports Nunjucks templates, HTML files and Markdown files for your slides. Templates and Markdown files will first be compiled to HTML and then inserted into the final document. For templates, you can supply context data as JSON or YAML files.

Given a folder of slides like this:

slides/
 └─┬ 01-cover.nunj  # Slide as Nunjucks template
   ├ 01-cover.json  # Context data for the above slide
   │
   ├ 02-elevator-pitch.html  # Slide as HTML file
   │
   ├ 03-why-it-is-awesome.md  # Slide as MD file
   │
   ├ 04-summary.nunj  # Another Nunjucks slide
   └ 04-summary.yaml  # ...this time with YAML context data

...Deck-o-tron will produce a single index.html file containing all slides.

The order of the slides in the final deck is determined by their filenames. A simple way to control that is to prefix numbers to the filenames, as in the example above. Any other files in the same directory will be ignored by Deck-o-tron.

Deck-o-tron also supports nested groups of slides (useful, for instance, to create vertical slides in Reveal.js) and sub-folders for individual slides, which can be useful for grouping files that relate to a single slide (e.g. data and images used on that slide).

1. Install Deck-o-tron as a dependency: npm install --save-dev deckotron
2. TBC - probably make a config file and hook deckotron into your build

Deck-o-tron is open-source and we welcome feedback and contributions. Even small contributions like shares, likes or reporting issues are greatly appreciated!