create-new-revealjs-template

Reveal.js template presentation as a GitHub repo Template

• Includes Reveal.js as a Git submodule so that its commit history is not confused with this presentation's history
• Makes future updating of Reveal.js version very easy
• Reduces the size of the presentation repositories significantly

Usage

1. Click 'Use This Template'
2. Name your presentation and it will be created in your own GitHub account/org
3. Customise as necessary
4. If you clone the repo locally you also need to get the submodule files with git submodule update --init --recursive
5. Push completed slides back to GitHub
6. Configure your GitHub pages settings to serve the slides from youraccount.github.io/repositoryname (or custom domain even)
7. Amaze your friends by being able to share the URL of your live, interactive slides with your audience immediately. No more emailing PowerPoint attachments for YOU!

Updating Reveal.js

• You may get Dependabot alerts from GitHub to warn you of vulnerabilities in the Reveal.js code. To make these go away, update the submodule.
• Use the command git submodule update --rebase --remote in the root of the repository (not the submodule directory) to update.
• link for info on updating submodules https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1979167/git-submodule-update

Credits

• Hakim El-Hattab for the simple awesome Reveal.js
• Martino Mensio for his guide on how to use Reveal.js as a Git submodule in this blog post (and in doing so I learned how to use and not fear the Submodule!)
• Excalidraw which is a separate project, mentioned in my presentation template, but I love it so much I wanted to plug it here too.

License

• MIT Licensed as per Reveal.js itself

Contributing

• Feel free to make suggestions and PRs to the template repo