Reveal-md vs reveal.js + external markdown

[ccamara]

On my search for a way to author presentations using markdown for fast authoring yet flexible and customizable presentations, I discovered reveal.js some weeks ago. Today I have just discovered reveal-md and while I like everything I am reading on the official documentation I am wondering about the differences with using reveal.js + external markdown.

As far as I know, both ways require compilation in order to generate the final html file, but if I am not wrong, reveal.js needs a barebones html file with the configuration while with reveal-md there is no need for such file. However, since I am pretty new to reveal.js I cannot yet appreciate the differences and where does reveal-md shine over the other method.

[webpro]

I think you're describing the differences quite well. I think the main advantages of reveal-md is that you only need a Markdown file, and it starts a simple server so the presentation is available at e.g. http://localhost:1543 automatically.

Next to this, there are a few gimmicks such as using YAML front matter for configuration options and Markdown pre-processing.