The Spectacle core API is available at https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle/blob/master/README.markdown.
After downloading the boilerplate, your first order of business is to open terminal and run yarn. (or npm install if you're about that life)
Next, run rm -R .git to remove the existing version control.
Then, to start up the local server, run npm start
Open a browser and hit http://localhost:3000, and we are ready to roll
Building the dist version of the project is as easy as running npm run build
If you want to deploy the slideshow to surge, run npm run deploy