# jdan/cleaver

30-second slideshows for hackers

Repository: https://github.com/jdan/cleaver
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cleaver
Homepage: http://jdan.github.io/cleaver
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: slideshow, markdown
Last push: 2021-10-19T12:36:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5078, "days_push": 1779, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4055, forks 299 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:33.921467+00:00)

## What it is
Cleaver is a Node.js CLI tool that turns Markdown documents into interactive HTML slide presentations. Slides are written in Markdown separated by `--`, with optional metadata for author info, custom styles, and themes.

## Use cases
- create html slideshows from markdown
- quick presentation generator for developers
- turn markdown into slides
- make a slideshow without powerpoint
- generate presentation html from a text file
- write tech talks in markdown

## When to choose
- you want fast, minimal HTML slides from plain Markdown
- you prefer writing presentations in a text editor and version-controlling them
- you need a simple default-styled deck with optional custom CSS or themes

## When to avoid
- you need PowerPoint-style rich editing, animations, or speaker notes
- you need collaborative or cloud-based presentation tools
- you need actively developed features - the project has seen no releases since 2021

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: static-site-generator, markdown, templating
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, documentation
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: slideshows, presentations, html-slides, markdown-to-html, nodejs

## Member repositories
- jdan/cleaver (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:33.921467+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 2026-08-29T18:23:37.491380+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jdan/cleaver (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:33.921467+00:00, sha 494af9ce57a1)
  - homepage: http://jdan.github.io/cleaver (fetched 2026-08-29T09:16:08.459664+00:00, sha b8a25f7321b4)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/cleaver (fetched 2026-08-29T09:16:08.468480+00:00, sha 98fd554fb74c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.