This is a reveal.js based presentation, capable of both live serving with joined slide state pushed from a /control endpoint via websocket and basic auth, or generated into a static site format in docs/, making it easy for simple deploy to GitHub Pages (or other static host) for permanence.
This project has been updated to have been re-created, save for presentation content, via the presto-preso yeoman generator.
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npm installnpm startruns the server version, with web sockets enabled and/controlroutenpm run buildbuilds a static copy intodocs/, making it easy to host on GitHub Pagesnpm run devruns a local preview server with live-reload on changes toviews/*.ejs
When run locally, unless an environment variable is set, the application will run on port 5001 with browser-sync proxying in front of it on port 3000.
On the server, the app will try to pull, in order, the port number from an environment variable set of PORT or VCAP_APP_PORT.
The node app uses basic auth to protect the /control end point. By default, these credentials (which are embedded in the /routes/index.js file). The values are settable via the PRESO_CONTROLLER_NAME and PRESO_CONTROLLER_PW environment variables, with defaults of :
username: admin
password: someAmazingP@$$w0rd
All those connected to your instance will receive the stateful changes in your current slide via the socket.io implementation.
This is a reveal.js presentation, with the content primarily in markdown (GitHub flavored, which allows pass-through HTML). It scales (pretty well) on all devices and is served on top of a NodeJS/Express server stack. This Express app implements a socket.io connection, allowing the presenter to control (with authorization) the status and progression through the slides during the session. On completion, the presenter disconnects, and all viewers of the slides are given full and independent movement throughout.
This application stack is loosely based on the Revealer.js app in addition to elements taken from a couple other projects which achieved similar results but didn't quite make the cut. I couldn't find a single project which achieved all of:
- using (a current version of) Express
- using a web socket with Express (that wasn't outdated under the current API)
- pushed more than just the event, but the actual slide (e.g.- #/1/2) state to the "current" slide
- used templating other than jade (which is apparently popular, but I prefer EJS); this lets the base presentation and /control users see the same presentation
At best I was getting 2 / 4 features, so I hacked together this, then eventually turned it into a yeoman generator. The content of the slides is written fully in GitHub flavored markdown (via a reveal.js plugin).
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