Reveal.js is an open source HTML presentation framework. With Reveal Jekyll, the goal is to make it easier to manage your presentation and just focus on the content in markdown.

You can see it as a boilerplate for your reveal.js presentation. You can either write your slides as separate markdown files or put everything in one. Check it out!

What’s more! All default plugins are pre bundled with it, and almost all reveal.js features are compatible with your reveal jekyll presentation.

Get started with your presentation in less than 5min

Set up

You can go on Reveal Jekyll and click on Use this template to clone and create your own repository.

Then locally, make sure to install bundle which will ease the installation of jekyll:

gem install bundle
bundle install

You can go into settings to make your master branch generate a GitHub Page automatically at username.github.io/repository_name

Create your presentation

Workflow of your presentation:

Raw Markdown

Take a look at the example, In index.html use the layout: raw and then you can create your slides directly in the file using markdown:

• ___ Makes a basement slide
• --- Makes the next slide

Using Jekyll capabilities

Take a look at the example slides and basements, In index.html use the layout: presentation. It will use the _slides and _basements folder to create the presentation.

Slide

Use the _slides folder to create a file per slide in markdown.

---
background: ...                 # Optional to put an image or a color as the background
video: "http://video-link.mp4"  # Optional to put a video as the background
transition: slide               # Optional change the transition type for this slide
---

Slide content in markdown

Don’t forget to add the two ---.

To order the presentation, you can do something like 01-First-slide-title.md, 02-Second-slide-title.md.

Basement slides

Basement slides can be put in the _basements folder. The Basement slides are slides that will be accessible using the down arrow when on a particular slide.

They are the subsections of your presentation:

---
slide: slide-title
---
 
Content of the Basement slide in markdown

Don’t forget to use the slide attribute to specify under which slide it will fit.

Config

Configure Reveal.js in teh _config.yml:

reveal:
  transition: "slide" # none/fade/slide/convex/concave/zoom
  theme: "black" # beige/blood/league/moon/night/serif/simple/sky/solarized/white

You can set globally the transitions and theme of your presentation.

Export presentation

To export the presentation use ?print-pdf at the end of the url to be able to save the page as PDF:

<url>:<port>/<base url>/?print-pdf

Try it at …/Reveal-Jekyll/?print-pdf

Use as a gem

There is a Dockerfile available, check it out to see how to use the theme in a Docker. You need 4 things to make it work as a gem:

• The Gemfile with the reveal-jekyll gem: gem 'reveal-jekyll', '~> 0.0.2'
• The index.html which is the entrypoint of your jekyll site and presentation (with explained above configuration)
• The _config.yml which defines your theme configuration.
• The presentation, assets and content you want to display.

And that’s it you’d be good to roll!

Run the presentation

One you all set, you can run locally using:

bundle exec jekyll serve

And it should be available at localhost:4000 🌈