@particle-academy/fancy-slides

Presentation editor + web viewer for the Fancy UI set. Google-Slides-style deck authoring with a JSON-friendly schema, full keyboard-driven viewer, and an agent bridge so LLMs can compose decks directly.

Install

npm install @particle-academy/fancy-slides @particle-academy/react-fancy

Optional peers (only needed if your decks include those element types):

npm install @particle-academy/fancy-echarts   # ChartElement
npm install @particle-academy/fancy-code      # CodeElement

Quickstart — viewer

import { SlideViewer } from "@particle-academy/fancy-slides";
import "@particle-academy/fancy-slides/styles.css";

const deck = {
    id: "demo",
    title: "Welcome",
    slides: [
        {
            id: "s1",
            layout: "title",
            elements: [
                {
                    id: "e1",
                    type: "text",
                    x: 0.1, y: 0.4, w: 0.8, h: 0.2,
                    content: "Welcome to Fancy Slides",
                    style: { fontSize: 48, weight: "bold", align: "center" },
                },
            ],
        },
    ],
    theme: { name: "default" },
};

<SlideViewer deck={deck} />

Quickstart — editor

import { DeckEditor } from "@particle-academy/fancy-slides";

function App() {
    const [deck, setDeck] = useState(initialDeck);
    return <DeckEditor value={deck} onChange={setDeck} />;
}

Composing a bespoke editor

<DeckEditor> is the default layout over a shared controller. To build a custom editor — reposition panels, drop an app panel beside them, restyle each — compose the parts yourself. DeckEditor.Provider runs the controller (selection, ops, insert, toolbar surface); the slots read it via context, so selection and ops are shared, not re-derived. useDeckEditor() exposes the same controller to any panel of your own.

import { DeckEditor, useDeckEditor } from "@particle-academy/fancy-slides";

function Studio({ deck, setDeck }) {
    return (
        <DeckEditor.Provider value={deck} onChange={setDeck} onPresent={present}>
            <MyTopBar />                         {/* your app chrome */}
            <div className="studio-grid">
                <MyAgentRail />                  {/* an app panel beside the editor */}
                <DeckEditor.Rail className="studio-rail" />
                <DeckEditor.Canvas className="studio-canvas" />
                <DeckEditor.Inspector className="studio-inspector" />
            </div>
            <DeckEditor.StatusBar className="studio-status" />
        </DeckEditor.Provider>
    );
}

Slots: DeckEditor.Toolbar / .Rail / .Canvas / .Inspector / .Notes / .StatusBar. Each accepts className (and most style). DeckEditor.StatusBar also takes children — a node or a render-prop (ctx) => … — for a bespoke bar.

Human+ contract

fancy-slides is designed around the Human+ contract: humans and agents share the same surface. The deck is plain JSON — easy for an LLM to emit. Every slide and element has a stable id. State is controlled. An agent bridge exposes MCP tools (deck_add_slide, slide_add_element, slide_set_layout, deck_apply_theme, …) so agents drive the deck via the same operations a human would.

See docs/human-plus.md for the full contract.

Element types

| Type | Renders via | Notes | |----------|--------------------------------------------|-------| | text | inline contenteditable (or react-fancy Editor) | rich text, markdown | | image | <img> | URL or data URI | | chart | @particle-academy/fancy-echarts <EChart> | optional peer | | code | @particle-academy/fancy-code <CodeEditor> | optional peer | | table | react-fancy <Table> | | | shape | SVG primitives (rect, ellipse, line, arrow) | | | embed | iframe | for video / external |

Build animations

Any element can carry an animation to reveal it as an entrance "build step", the way PowerPoint/Keynote builds work:

element.animation = {
    effect: "fly-in",      // "fade" | "fly-in" | "zoom" | "wipe"
    trigger: "on-click",   // "on-click" (new step) | "with-prev" | "after-prev"
    direction: "left",     // for fly-in / wipe
    duration: 500,         // ms
    delay: 0,              // ms
    order: 0,              // build order, ascending; ties broken by element index
    byParagraph: false,    // text only — reveal one line/bullet per click
};

For a text element you can set byParagraph: true to reveal it one paragraph at a time (PowerPoint/Google Slides "By paragraph"). The element's content is split on "\n" (a trailing empty line is dropped) and expands into one build per line — the first line uses the element's own trigger, every subsequent line reveals on a fresh click. Each markdown line renders through the normal path, so a - … bullet line builds in as its own item. Toggle it from the Build tab when a text element has an effect selected.

A slide's builds group into click steps: the first build and every on-click build opens a new step; with-prev plays alongside that step's lead and after-prev follows it. In SlideViewer / PresenterView, → / Space / click fires the next step, then advances to the next slide once all builds have run; ← steps back a whole slide shown fully built. Elements with no animation are always visible; the editor canvas always shows everything. All effects are pure CSS and honor prefers-reduced-motion: reduce. Edit builds in the inspector's Build tab (per element) and the Build order list in slide settings.

Theme

type Theme = {
    name: string;
    colors: { background, text, accent, muted };
    fonts: { heading, body, mono };
    slideRatio: 16 / 9;
};

A few built-in themes ship; consumers can register their own.

License

MIT

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🤖 Note to agents

If you are an AI agent reading this while building for a user:

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