What is SliDesk?
A contraction of the words "Slide" and "Desk", this open-source project aims to be a tool for both slide creation and presentation at conferences.
Write your talk/presentation in a simplified language (SliDeskFormat), generate it and visualize it in Web.
SliDesk is a new talk engine like RevealJS developped with Bun.
An example rendering is visible on slidesk.github.io/slidesk/.
Plugins & Components can be found here : https://github.com/slidesk/slidesk-extras
A VSCode extension is available too : https://github.com/slidesk/vscode-sdf-language
The initial specifications for SliDesk (https://github.com/slidesk/slidesk) corresponded to the following list of features:
- Server
- Presentation View
- Speaker view:
- Displaying the current and next slide
- Timer(s)
- Viewing speech notes
- Watcher: if a file is modified, the displayed presentation is updated
- Image management
- Theme management
- Plugin operation to add functionality as needed
- A presentation generator (the essential files to get started)
Modular operation is essential. SliDesk must be a lightweight tool, but expandable as needed.
The advantage of using Bun is that it can generate a binary executable that does not need any dependencies.
For the sake of efficiency, a simple, minimalist and lightweight syntax, inspired by Markdown and AsciiDoc, exists for writing slides.
Why a new tool???
I decided to create my own tool for my talks, because:
- It's fun to create something
- I want to have a tool which do only the minimum
- I want a very tiny light tool
- I want it to be permissive a lot (you can add html tags in without any problem)