marp-slides-template

Marp Slides Template

Use this template!

Create a Marp presentation site that can be built and published on [GitHub Pages] using this minimal template. The site features:

• Marp integration
• A GitHub Pages / Actions workflow for build and publish (See a preview)
• A DevContainer/CodeSpace configuration with Marp and Markdown preview extensions
• Chrome installation for PDF and PowerPoint slide creation on Linux

Customization

Feel free to customize the sites created with this template as you like!

Getting Started

1. Click “[use this template]” to create a new site.
2. Update the content of Slides.md with your own presentation.

Custom Themes

This template includes four custom themes in the slides/themes folder:

• custom
• custom-default (based on the built-in default theme)
• custom-gaia (based on the built-in gaia theme)
• custom-uncover (based on the built-in uncover theme)

To use a custom theme, edit the relevant css file and add its reference in the front matter of Slides.md. For example, to use custom-default add the following to the Slides.md front matter:

---
marp: true
theme: custom-default
---

For additional themes, add them to the devcontainer and follow the Marp custom theme documentation.

Publishing on GitHub Pages

1. In your GitHub repo, navigate to Settings > Pages > Build and deployment.
2. Select Source: GitHub Actions.
3. If any Actions failed, go to the Actions tab and click on Re-run jobs.

Local Build and Preview

1. Install Visual Studio Code.
2. Install the Marp for VS Code extension.
3. Open slides/Slides.md in VS Code.

Licensing and Attribution

This repository is licensed under the [MIT License]. Reuse or extend the code as you wish, but include the original license. The deployment GitHub Actions workflow is based on GitHub’s starter workflows.

Resources

• Use this template

• GitHub Pages: https://docs.github.com/en/pages

• Thanks to Chris Ayers for initial work: https://github.com/codebytes

• CommonMark markdown syntax: https://commonmark.org/help/

• Marp Official Repository: https://github.com/marp-team/marp
• Marp Official Documentation: https://marpit.marp.app/markdown
• Marp for VS Code Documentation: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=marp-team.marp-vscode

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