Creating presentations in Elm

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I’ve been looking to update a few of my tech talk slides. I’ve discovered dive by way of elm-presentation which seems pretty interesting and fun to work with.

I’ve made a start moving things to Elm 0.19.1, however I’m wondering if there are any newer (already 0.19) tools that people would recommend before I dive in (pun intended) and migrate the package to 0.19

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I’ve created GitHub - w0rm/elm-slice-show: A simple presentation engine in Elm and have been using for all my presentations. It’s a very simple presentation engine that lets you add slides and add content to the slides. A content block can be a mini interactive Elm app.

For example: Main
Source code: w0rm.github.io/slides/2023-01-07-how-to-drive-smoothly-with-elm/Main.elm at main · w0rm/w0rm.github.io · GitHub

There are no formatting primitives, I usually copy paste and modify them from one presentation to another. You can probably figure out how to check the other presentations as that repository is deployed with gh-pages.

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I don’t know about packages, but for tooling Home | elm-watch has been incredible to work with. We just moved over to it at work a couple months ago and it’s loved by everyone.

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Just realised the question was about upgrading dive, rather than about a solution for creating presentations in Elm :smile:

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I believe that’s the purpose of dive :smiley:

I’ve also found elm-slides which seems at first glance to be less powerful but more recent. If anyone has any experience with such packages I’d love to hear about your experiences.

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Oh, in this case I un-deleted my first message! Maybe you find it useful.

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Thanks for all the tips folks. I’ve made a start moving things over to Elm. This gives me a few benefits:

  • Shared slides across presentations are easy
  • Theming can be shared easily (I’m sure I could learn how to make a google slides theme, but still)
  • Programmatic slides are now possible throughout a slide deck
  • Everything is now in source control :tada:
  • It just feels nicer to work with

I’m still going to have a look at upgrading dive, I’m quite fond of the Prezi style animations in the example, but this has already left me in a much better place so thanks for your help!

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The topic got off tracked. Hence I created a new topic to get the required answer Custom package installation from github Please comment the process if you already know how to get it done.

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I’m not sure the topic got off track, the original question was “if there are any newer (already 0.19) tools that people would recommend”, I feel like that was fairly well answered here.

I’ve made a small start on making dive functional in Elm 0.19, but it needs a fair bit of work. From the linked thread it seems like maybe elm-dive-svg is a better/simpler migration to do.

If you do want to look at updating the dive package and re-publishing it in Elm 0.19 though, that would be fantastic :smile: I’m definitely not a front-end engineer so I expect it would take me a while to get everything working.

You can’t use 0.18 elm packages with Elm 0.19 though which is likely the problem you are encountering in elm install.

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I prefered elm-dive-svg, I’ve used it quite a few times to make presentations. I forked it but never done the upgrade to 0.19.

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