Slidev
Leading#2 in Open sourcehigh confidence
The modern developer favorite (~47.8k stars): Markdown-driven decks powered by Vite/Vue 3 with live coding, Mermaid, KaTeX and PPTX/PDF/PNG export. Also ships its own official Agent Skill (see below).Our read
Why it ranks #2
The fastest-growing modern developer slide framework here at about 47.8k GitHub stars, with active 2026 development and strong conference-talk adoption.Here is the catch
Vue/Vite concepts add a learning curve
PPTX export is less faithful and editable than native PowerPoint authoring
complex decks can depend on browser-specific rendering
Does this well
excellent developer experience and rapid local preview
rich technical-content components out of the box
theme and addon ecosystem supports reusable decks
Pricing
Checked by hand on 2026-07-23. Prices in this category change often — if this looks wrong, it probably is.
Key features
Markdown and Vue component authoringLive code, Monaco and presenter toolsMermaid, KaTeX and animation supportPDF, PNG and PPTX export
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More in this area
The rest of the Open source column.- 1reveal.jsThe de-facto standard open-source HTML presentation framework (~72k stars) — Markdown authoring, PDF export, speaker notes, LaTeX and auto-animate. The most-adopted tool in the entire category.
- 3impress.jsPrezi-style CSS3 3D and zoom transitions with full HTML/CSS/JS control (~38.2k stars). Very high adoption, though less actively maintained than reveal.js and Slidev.
- 4remarkA simple in-browser, Markdown-driven slideshow (~13k stars) for people comfortable with HTML/CSS. A long-standing lightweight option.
- 5SpectacleA React/JSX-based presentation library (~10.1k stars) from Formidable Labs, strong for live code demos and the React ecosystem; actively maintained.
- 6python-pptxThe foundational Python library for programmatically generating and reading .pptx (~3.5k stars). Star count is modest but real-world adoption is enormous — it is the engine the Anthropic pptx skill and most PPTX tooling depend on, so it ranks above higher-starred JS tools on adoption depth.
- 7Marp (marp-cli)A mature Markdown-to-slides ecosystem (~3.7k stars for the CLI, plus a popular VS Code extension) exporting HTML/PDF/PPTX. Lower star count than the leaders but a well-adopted Markdown-native toolchain.