Spectacle

ReactJS based Presentation Library

Spectacle Boilerplate

Getting Started
Development
Build & Deployment
Presenting
Controls
Fullscreen
PDF Export
Basic Concepts
- Main file
- Themes
  - createTheme(colors, fonts)
Tag API
Third Party Extensions

Getting Started

The best way to get started is by using the Spectacle Boilerplate.

Alternatively, you can npm install spectacle and write your own build configurations.

But really, it is SO much easier to just use the boilerplate. Trust me.

Development

After downloading the boilerplate, your first order of business is to open terminal and run npm install

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

Build & Deployment

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

Presenting

Spectacle comes with a built in presenter mode. It shows you a slide lookahead, current time and your current slide:

To present:

Run npm start
Open two browser windows on two different screens
On your screen visit http://localhost:3000/?presenter
On the presentation screen visit http://localhost:3000/
Give an amazingly stylish presentation

Note: Any windows/tabs in the same browser that are running Spectacle will sync to one another, even if you don't want to use presentation mode

Check it out:

You can toggle the presenter or overview mode by pressing respectively alt+p and alt+o.

Controls

Key Combination	Function
Right Arrow	Next Slide
Left Arrow	Previous Slide
Space	Next Slide
Shift+Space	Previous Slide
Alt/Option + O	Toggle Overview Mode
Alt/Option + P	Toggle Presenter Mode

Fullscreen

Fullscreen can be toggled via browser options, or by hovering over the bottom right corner of your window until the fullscreen icon appears and clicking it.

PDF Export

Exporting a totally sweet looking PDF from your totally sweet looking Spectacle presentation is absurdly easy.

Run npm start
Append your URL with ?export (http://localhost:3000/?export)
Bring up the print dialog (ctrl or cmd + p)
Check "Background Graphics" to on if you are about that life
Change destination to "Save as PDF", as shown below:

If you want to print your slides, and want a printer friendly version, simply repeat the above process but instead print from http://localhost:3000/?export&print

Basic Concepts

Main file

Your presentation files & assets will live in the presentation folder.

The main .js file you write your deck in is /presentation/index.js

Check it out here in the boilerplate.

// index.js

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
  Appear, BlockQuote, Cite, CodePane, Code, Deck, Fill, Fit,
  Heading, Image, Layout, ListItem, List, Quote, Spectacle, Slide, Text
} from 'spectacle';

export default class extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Spectacle>
        <Deck>
          <Slide>
            <Text>Hello</Text>
          </Slide>
        </Deck>
      </Spectacle>
    );
  }
}

Here is where you can use the library's tags to compose your presentation. While you can use any JSX syntax here, building your presentation with the supplied tags allows for theming to work properly.

The bare minimum you need to start is a Spectacle element, aDeck element and a Slide element. Each Slide element represents a slide inside of your slideshow.

Themes

In Spectacle, themes are functions that return style objects for screen & print.

You can import the default theme from:

import createTheme from "spectacle/lib/themes/default";

Or create your own based upon the source.

index.js is what you would edit in order to create a custom theme of your own, using ReactJS style inline style objects.

You will want to edit index.html to include any web fonts or additional CSS that your theme requires.

createTheme(colors, fonts)

Spectacle's functional theme system allows you to pass in color and font variables that you can use on your elements. See the example below:

const theme = createTheme({
  primary: "red"
}, {
  primary: "Helvetica"
});

The returned theme object can then be passed to the Spectacle tag via the theme prop, and will override the default styles.

Tag API

In Spectacle, presentations are composed of a set of base tags. We can separate these into three categories: Main tags, Layout tags & Element tags.

Main Tags

Spectacle

The Spectacle tag is the root level tag for your presentation. It handles routing, flux and generally presenting your Deck & Slides. It supports the following props:

Name	PropType	Description
theme	React.PropTypes.object	Accepts a theme object for styling your presentation

Deck

The deck tag wraps your slides. It supports the following props:

Name	PropType	Description
transition	React.PropTypes.array	Accepts `slide`, `zoom`, `fade` or `spin`, and can be combined. Sets global slide transitions. Note: If you use the 'scale' transition, fitted text won't work in Safari.
transitionDuration	React.PropTypes.number	Accepts integer value in milliseconds for global transition duration.
progress	React.PropTypes.string	Accepts `pacman`, `bar`, `number` or `none`.
controls	React.PropTypes.bool	Show control arrows when not in fullscreen

Slide (Base)

The slide tag represents each slide in the presentation. Giving a slide tag an id attribute will replace its number based navigation hash with the id provided. It supports the following props, in addition to any of the props outlined in the Base class props listing:

Name	PropType	Description
align	React.PropTypes.string	Accepts a space delimited value for positioning interior content. The first value can be `flex-start` (left), `center` (middle), or `flex-end` (bottom). The second value can be `flex-start` (top) , `center` (middle), or `flex-end` (bottom). You would provide this prop like `align="center center"`, which is its default.
transition	React.PropTypes.array	Accepts `slide`, `zoom`, `fade` or `spin`, and can be combined. Sets the slide transition. Note: If you use the 'scale' transition, fitted text won't work in Safari.
transitionDuration	React.PropTypes.number	Accepts integer value in milliseconds for slide transition duration.
notes	React.PropTypes.string	Text which will appear in the presenter mode. Can be HTML.
id	React.PropTypes.string	Used to create a string based hash.

Layout Tags

Layout tags are used for layout using Flexbox within your slide. They are Layout, Fit & Fill.

Layout

The layout tag is used to wrap Fit and Fill tags to provide a row.

Fit

The fit tag only takes up as much space as its bounds provide.

Fill

The fill tag takes up all the space available to it. For example, if you have a Fill tag next to a Fit tag, the Fill tag will take up the rest of the space. Adjacent Fill tags split the difference and form an equidistant grid.

Markdown Tag

Markdown

The Markdown tag is used to add inline markdown to your slide. You can provide markdown source via the source prop, or as children. You can also provide a custom mdast configuration via the mdastConfig prop.

Markdown generated tags aren't prop configurable, and instead render with your theme defaults.

Name	PropType	Description
source	React.PropTypes.string	Markdown source
mdastConfig	React.PropTypes.object	Mdast configuration object

Element Tags

The element tags are the bread and butter of your slide content. Most of these tags derive their props from the Base class, but the ones that have special options will have them listed:

Appear

This tag does not extend from Base. It's special. Wrapping elements in the appear tag makes them appear/disappear in order in response to navigation.

BlockQuote, Quote and Cite (Base)

These tags create a styled blockquote. Use them as follows:

<BlockQuote>
	<Quote>Ken Wheeler is amazing</Quote>
	<Cite>Everyone</Cite>
</BlockQuote>

CodePane (Base)

This tag displays a styled, highlighted code preview. I prefer putting my code samples in external .example files and requiring them using raw-loader as shown in the demo. Here are the props:

Name	PropType	Description
lang	React.PropTypes.string	Prism compatible language name. i.e: 'javascript'
source	React.PropTypes.string	String of code to be shown

You can change your syntax highlighting theme by swapping the prism.js CSS file in index.html

Code (Base)

A simple tag for wrapping inline text that you want lightly styled in a monospace font.

Heading (Base)

Heading tags are special in that, when you specify a size prop, they generate the appropriate heading tag, and extend themselves with a style that is defined in the theme file for that heading. Line height can be adjusted via a numeric lineHeight prop.

Name	PropType	Description
fit	React.PropTypes.boolean	When set to true, fits text to the slide's width. Note: If you use the 'scale' transition, this won't work in Safari.
lineHeight	React.PropTypes.number	Sets the line height of your text.

Image (Base)

Name	PropType	Description
display	React.PropTypes.string	Set the display style property of the image
height	React.PropTypes.string or React.PropTypes.number	Supply a height to the image
src	React.PropTypes.string	Image src
width	React.PropTypes.string or React.PropTypes.number	Supply a width to the image

Link (Base)

The link tag is used to render <a> tags. It accepts an href prop:

Name	PropType	Description
href	React.PropTypes.string	String of url for `href` attribute

List & ListItem (Base)

These tags create lists. Use them as follows:

<List>
	<ListItem>Item 1</ListItem>
	<ListItem>Item 2</ListItem>
	<ListItem>Item 3</ListItem>
	<ListItem>Item 4</ListItem>
</List>

S (Base)

The S tag is used to add inline styling to a piece of text, such as underline or strikethrough.

Name	PropType	Description
type	React.PropTypes.string	Accepts `strikethrough`, `underline`, `bold` or `italic`

Table, TableRow, TableHeaderItem and TableItem (Base)

The Table tag is used to add table to your slide. It is used with TableRow, TableHeaderItem and TableItem. Use them as follows:

<Table>
  <TableRow>
    <TableHeaderItem></TableHeaderItem>
    <TableHeaderItem>2011</TableHeaderItem>
  </TableRow>
  <TableRow>
    <TableItem>None</TableItem>
    <TableItem>61.8%</TableItem>
  </TableRow>
  <TableRow>
    <TableItem>jQuery</TableItem>
    <TableItem>28.3%</TableItem>
  </TableRow>
</Table>

Text (Base)

The Text tag is used to add text to your slide. Line height can be adjusted via a numeric lineHeight prop.

Name	PropType	Description
fit	React.PropTypes.boolean	When set to true, fits text to the slide's width. Note: If you use the 'scale' transition, this won't work in Safari.
lineHeight	React.PropTypes.number	Sets the line height of your text.

Base Props

Every component above that has (Base) after it has been extended from a common class that includes the following props:

Name	PropType	Description
italic	React.PropTypes.boolean	Set `fontStyle` to `italic`
bold	React.PropTypes.boolean	Set `fontWeight` to `bold`
caps	React.PropTypes.boolean	Set `textTransform` to `uppercase`
margin	React.PropTypes.number or string	Set `margin` value
padding	React.PropTypes.number or string	Set `padding` value
textColor	React.PropTypes.string	Set `color` value
textSize	React.PropTypes.string	Set `fontSize` value
textAlign	React.PropTypes.string	Set `textAlign` value
textFont	React.PropTypes.string	Set `textFont` value
bgColor	React.PropTypes.string	Set `backgroundColor` value
bgImage	React.PropTypes.string	Set `backgroundImage` value
bgDarken	React.PropTypes.number	Float value from 0.0 to 1.0 specifying how much to darken the bgImage image

Third Party Extensions

Spectacle Code Slide - Step through lines of code using this awesome slide extension by @thejameskyle

firedev/spectacle

Spectacle

Contents

Getting Started

Development

Build & Deployment

Presenting

Controls

Fullscreen

PDF Export

Basic Concepts

Main file

Themes

createTheme(colors, fonts)

Tag API

Main Tags

Spectacle

Deck

Slide (Base)

Layout Tags

Layout

Fit

Fill

Markdown Tag

Markdown

Element Tags

Appear

BlockQuote, Quote and Cite (Base)

CodePane (Base)

Code (Base)

Heading (Base)

Image (Base)

Link (Base)

List & ListItem (Base)

S (Base)

Table, TableRow, TableHeaderItem and TableItem (Base)

Text (Base)

Base Props

Third Party Extensions