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slides.deno.dev

A Marp Slide Viewer App

by tani

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Introduction

• slides.deno.dev is a simple slide generation service built with Deno.
• It converts slide decks written in Markdown into HTML and displays them in the browser.

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System Architecture

• Deno
  A modern runtime environment for executing server-side code
• Hono
  A lightweight HTTP server framework
• Marp
  An open-source tool for converting Markdown into slides

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Workflow

1. Prepare a Markdown file
2. Access the service with the Markdown file's URL specified as a parameter
   https://slides.deno.dev/html?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tani/deck/refs/heads/main/README.md
3. The server fetches the specified file and converts it using Marp
4. A page containing the converted HTML and CSS is returned, and the slides are displayed

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Error Handling

• If no URL is provided:
  A 400 error is returned with the message “Missing ?url=https://path.to/deck.md”
• If Markdown fetching or conversion fails:
  A 500 error with an error message is returned

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Summary

• slides.deno.dev is a tool that simply generates slides from Markdown.
• It leverages Deno, Hono, and Marp, allowing users to easily create and share slides.

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References

• Deno
• Hono
• Marp