What is Slidev
Slidev is an open-sourceslide creation tool, implemented based on the Markdown + Vue tech stack. The tool supports creating slides with simple Markdown syntax, supports code highlighting, live coding demos, math formula rendering, chart generation, and other features, and provides a rich set of themes and style options. Slidev provides a quick start command npm init slidev, supports the online editor sli.dev/new, and is simple and easy to use without installing software. Slidev's core advantages lie in its developer-friendliness and powerful interactivity, making it suitable for scenarios such as technical sharing, teaching and training, and product demos.
Slidev's main features
- Markdown-driven: Create slides based on Markdown syntax, focusing on content rather than complex layout.
- Developer-friendly: Built-in code highlighting, supports live coding demos, suitable for technical sharing and teaching.
- Theme support: Share and use a rich set of themes based on npm packages, and apply professional designs with one click.
- Interactivity: Seamlessly embed Vue components to create dynamic interactive presentations.
- Presenter mode: Control the slides with another window or a phone, making it convenient to view notes while presenting.
- Drawing annotations: Draw and annotate on slides in real time to enhance explanations.
- Math formula support: Built-in support for LaTeX math formulas, suitable for educational and academic scenarios.
- Icon support: Directly access various icon sets to enrich visual elements.
- Export function: Easily export to PDF, PNG, or PPTX formats, compatible with various usage scenarios.
Slidev's technical principles
- Vite: An extremely fast front-end build tool that provides second-level hot updates and accelerates the development process.
- Vue 3: As the core framework, it supports component-based development, enabling slide content to be modularized and reused.
- UnoCSS: An atomic CSS engine that generates styles on demand, improving performance and flexibility.
- Shiki: Provides VS Code-level code highlighting and supports multiple programming languages.
- Mermaid: Used to convert text descriptions into vector diagrams, supporting flowcharts, Gantt charts, and more.
- RecordRTC: Built-in screen recording function, supports presentation recording.
- VueUse: Provides a series of Vue-specific utility functions to enhance interactivity.
Slidev's project address
- Project official website：https://sli.dev/
- GitHub repository：https://github.com/slidevjs/slidev
Slidev's application scenarios
- Technical sharing: Show code and the development process to enhance audience understanding.
- Teaching and training: Create slides containing formulas and charts to improve teaching effectiveness.
- Product demos: Show product features and advantages, and present data intuitively.
- Academic reports: Accurately convey research results, with support for formulas and charts.
- Project reporting: Show project progress and results, making it easy to quickly understand the status.