# regebro/hovercraft

Make dynamic impressive presentations from text files!

Repository: https://github.com/regebro/hovercraft
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hovercraft
Homepage: https://hovercraft.readthedocs.org
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-04-14T14:35:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4965, "days_push": 1602, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1508, forks 202 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:55.596762+00:00)

## What it is
Hovercraft! is a command-line tool that generates impress.js presentations from reStructuredText files. The output is a standalone HTML slideshow with pan, rotate, and zoom effects, plus a presenter console with notes and previews.

## Use cases
- make presentations from text files
- generate impress.js slides from reStructuredText
- create 3D pan and zoom presentations without a GUI
- build an HTML slideshow I can host on a website
- present with speaker notes and slide previews
- add math formulas to a slide deck

## When to choose
- you prefer writing slides in plain text markup over GUI tools like PowerPoint
- you want dynamic pan/zoom/rotate presentations rendered in a browser
- you need easily shareable HTML presentations on a website
- you want a presenter console with notes

## When to avoid
- you need traditional linear slide decks with PowerPoint compatibility
- you want collaborative or cloud-based presentation editing
- you need a GUI slide editor
- you require active frequent development - the project is in maintenance mode

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, static-site-generator, markdown, templating
- domain: developer-tools, web-development, education, documentation
- platform: cli, cross-platform, python
- tags: presentations, impressjs, restructuredtext, slides, presenter-console

## Member repositories
- regebro/hovercraft (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:55.596762+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 2026-08-30T04:32:34.334490+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/regebro/hovercraft (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:55.596762+00:00, sha 54f7a3ed8482)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.