Getting Started with Java: The JBang Way

A (work-in-progress) presentation made for JDConf 2022.

The presentation is done using asciidoctor + reveal.js and the whole thing is wired up with a JBang script uses Github Actions to publish to

The advantage is that you need zero installation and setup for this. No Java, Maven, Ruby, Gems etc. setup. All done and in isolated and in a reproducible manner.

You can run ./render and it will setup jbang and run the script or if you already have jbang installed you can do:

jbang adoc2reveal.java --watch

This will get you a index.html generated anytime a .adoc file changes.

You can open it directly from the filesystem, but works best when served from a server.

You can run jbang httpd@jbangdev to serve the index.html file, or use something like vscode live reload plugin to open the index.html and get live-reload when it re-renders.