Dockerized www.webslides.tv

I'm a huge fan of anything other than powerpoint. Actually, I've written about my theory that PowerPoint is killing our creativity. Any Medium that is not PowerPoint gathers a lot more attention. Why do you ask? Well for starters it is different. Different is good when you are trying to grab the attention of your audience.

What is Webslides

I discovered WebSlides on Medium and HackerNews almost simultaneously. It is a new HTML presentation framework which is visually awesome! Check out the Webslides GitHub page for all the details.

Webslides in a Container

This is something I will be using going forward so it was a logical step to containerize it. The base image of this project is the Official Alpine NGINX image.

The entire project is installed in the NGINX working directory /usr/share/nginx/html

Running the Webslides Container

If you are interested just in kicking the webslides tires run the following command:

docker run --name webslides -d -p 8080:80 vegasbrianc/webslides

Once the container is running navigate to http://0.0.0.0:8080 This will take you to the webslides demo. Press the down arrow key to navigate through the slides.

Editing Slides

If you want to use Webslides for a presentation then clone the project to you Docker host machine git clone https://github.com/jlantunez/webslides.git

Attach the local slides to the container.

docker run --name webslides -d -p 8080:80 -v webslides:/usr/share/nginx/html vegasbrianc/webslides

Now you will be able to edit the slides locally.