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d9k commented Feb 15, 2026 •

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Found this one today : https://sli.dev/

sli.dev is flexible and feature-reach but bloated anti-minimalist solution. It serves full-blown local Nuxt website.

Tried example https://github.com/loftkun/slidev-example.

node_modules occupies 400 MB.

@iconfify: 128MB
- noto.json: 24MB, emojione-v1.json: 22MB...
monaco-editor: 83MB
pdf-lib: 22MB
. . . . .

export to pdf uses PlayWright with chromium browser to render! This approach is bloated and slow.

Couldn't configure proxy for external assets download during render: the solution didn't work for me.

d9k commented Feb 15, 2026 •

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On the other hand https://github.com/yhatt/marp-cli-example:

Just do npm i and edit PITCHME.md.
node_modules: only 130MB
- mathjax-full: 43MB
- chromium-bidi: 14MB
- puppeteer-core: 12MB
- . . . . .
VSCode preview plugin!
Build to PDF is much faster, no errors with proxy (for proxy just install proxychains, configure it and prefix command with it: proxychains npm run pdf)
- Build to pdf for marp-cli-example, package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "pdf": "marp --no-stdin PITCHME.md -o public/presentation.pdf",

If you want to fit long text just write scope CSS rule: <style scoped>section { font-size: 20px; }</style> inside the markdown slide: marp-team/marp-core#128 (comment)
Disable slides transition effects with transition: false in marp.config.mjs.

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