# tmcw/big

presentations for busy messy hackers

Repository: https://github.com/tmcw/big
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/big
Homepage: https://glitch.com/~tmcw-big-demo
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: slides, slideshow, javascript, presentation
Last push: 2025-11-07T15:21:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 46/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 51, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5468, "days_push": 299, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3318, forks 162 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:56.171457+00:00)

## What it is
Big is a tiny (~16kb) HTML-based presentation system where slides are simple div elements and text is automatically sized to fit the screen. It is configuration-free, uses CSS Grid layouts, supports speaker notes via the developer console, and themes are plain CSS.

## Use cases
- create a presentation quickly without fiddling with design
- make slides from plain HTML divs
- give a talk with speaker notes on a second screen
- host a slideshow on GitHub Pages
- present on touch devices with swipe navigation
- print a presentation or jump between slides
- build a themed slide deck with custom CSS

## When to choose
- you want a zero-configuration, minimal slide system
- you prefer writing slides in HTML rather than a GUI editor
- you need a very lightweight deck hosted as a static webpage
- you want automatic text sizing and simple keyboard/touch navigation

## When to avoid
- you need PowerPoint-style features like animations, transitions, or embedded media editing
- you want a WYSIWYG editor or collaborative slide editing
- you need complex layouts, charts, or rich slide templates out of the box
- you require a non-web presentation format like PDF export with full fidelity

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: frontend-framework, ui-components, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: presentation, slides, slideshow, html-slides, css-grid, speaker-notes, minimalist, configuration-free, web-server, javascript

## Member repositories
- tmcw/big (main) score 46

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.171457+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:42:03.648470+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tmcw/big (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.171457+00:00, sha 4ef732a0f90f)
  - homepage: https://glitch.com/~tmcw-big-demo (fetched 2026-08-29T09:35:07.631954+00:00, sha 76b841a77aa1)
  - site_page: https://glitch.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:35:07.641001+00:00, sha 76b841a77aa1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.