Slidewire Developer

SlideWire Presentation Builder

SlideWire (wendelladriel/slidewire) builds browser-based slide decks using Blade components and Livewire. A .blade.php file is compiled to a PresentationDeck Livewire component with AlpineJS handling all navigation and transitions.

Requirements: PHP ^8.4, Laravel ^12.0, Livewire ^4.2

Workflow

1. Scaffold with make:slidewire — generates a Livewire SFC stub
2. Author the deck in one Blade file: one <x-slidewire::deck> with <x-slidewire::slide> children
3. Register the route with Route::slidewire()
4. Refine using themes, transitions, fragments, and content components

php artisan make:slidewire demo/product-launch --title="Product Launch"
# Interactive mode (no args): prompts for path and title
# --force flag overwrites existing file

Presentations are discovered from config('slidewire.presentation_roots') (default: resources/views/pages/slides). The key demo/product-launch maps to resources/views/pages/slides/demo/product-launch.blade.php.

Presentation File Structure

Prefer the Livewire SFC format — it supports PHP logic, public properties, and with() data alongside the template:

<?php
use Livewire\Component;
new class extends Component {
    public string $title = 'My Talk';
    public function with(): array {
        return ['items' => ['Alpha', 'Beta', 'Gamma']];
    }
}; ?>

<x-slidewire::deck theme="aurora" transition="fade" show-progress="true">
    <x-slidewire::slide class="flex flex-col items-center justify-center">
        <h1 class="text-5xl font-bold tracking-tight">{{ $title }}</h1>
        <p class="text-xl text-slate-300 mt-4">Opening slide</p>
    </x-slidewire::slide>

    <x-slidewire::slide>
        <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-6">Topics</h2>
        @foreach ($items as $item)
            <x-slidewire::fragment>
                <p class="text-lg">{{ $item }}</p>
            </x-slidewire::fragment>
        @endforeach
    </x-slidewire::slide>
</x-slidewire::deck>

Plain Blade (no PHP logic) also works — just the <x-slidewire::deck> tree.

Route Registration

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::slidewire('/slides/product-launch', 'demo/product-launch');
// Named: slidewire.demo.product-launch
// Returns 404 if the presentation key cannot be resolved

Settings Precedence

slide attribute → deck attribute → config('slidewire.slides')

Set shared behavior on the deck, override intentionally per-slide.

Core Components

<x-slidewire::deck> — Presentation Wrapper

<x-slidewire::deck
    theme="aurora"
    transition="fade"
    transition-speed="default"
    transition-duration="350"
    auto-slide="0"
    auto-slide-pause-on-interaction="true"
    show-controls="true"
    show-progress="true"
    show-fullscreen-button="true"
    highlight-theme="catppuccin-mocha"
>

<x-slidewire::slide> — Single Slide

<x-slidewire::slide
    class="bg-slate-900 text-white"
    theme="black"
    transition="zoom"
    auto-animate="true"
    auto-animate-duration="500"
    background-image="https://example.com/bg.jpg"
    background-opacity="0.35"
    background-size="cover"
    background-position="center"
>
    <h2>Slide content</h2>
</x-slidewire::slide>

See references/components.md for all attribute tables.

<x-slidewire::vertical-slide> — Vertical Stack

Groups slides into one horizontal column with vertical navigation:

<x-slidewire::vertical-slide>
    <x-slidewire::slide><h2>Overview</h2></x-slidewire::slide>
    <x-slidewire::slide><h2>Detail A</h2></x-slidewire::slide>
    <x-slidewire::slide><h2>Detail B</h2></x-slidewire::slide>
</x-slidewire::vertical-slide>

Up/down arrows appear in controls only when vertical slides exist.

<x-slidewire::fragment> — Progressive Reveal

Reveals content incrementally. When unrevealed fragments exist, Next reveals the next fragment instead of advancing to the next slide.

<x-slidewire::slide>
    <h2>Rollout</h2>
    <x-slidewire::fragment :index="0"><p>Private beta</p></x-slidewire::fragment>
    <x-slidewire::fragment :index="1"><p>Pilot accounts</p></x-slidewire::fragment>
    <x-slidewire::fragment :index="2"><p>General availability</p></x-slidewire::fragment>
</x-slidewire::slide>

Omit :index to auto-count fragments within the slide.

<x-slidewire::code> — Highlighted Code Block

<x-slidewire::code language="php" size="text-lg" theme="catppuccin-latte" font="JetBrainsMono">
function greet(string $name): string {
    return "Hello, {$name}!";
}
</x-slidewire::code>

Theme resolution: explicit theme attr → active deck theme's highlightTheme → config default.

<x-slidewire::markdown> — Markdown Renderer

<x-slidewire::markdown size="text-base">
## Key Metrics

- **Activation rate:** 62%
- **Churn:** 1.8%

```php
echo 'fenced code blocks are highlighted';

Use `markdown` for narrative and mixed prose/code. Fenced code blocks are protected from Blade compilation automatically.

### `<x-slidewire::diagram>` — Mermaid Diagram

```blade
<x-slidewire::diagram theme="dark">
flowchart LR
    A[Request] --> B{Auth?}
    B -- Yes --> C[Handler]
    B -- No --> D[401]
</x-slidewire::diagram>

Mermaid is lazy-loaded from CDN (mermaid@11). Theme: dark or default.

Transition Reference

Speeds: fast (55% of base), default, slow (175% of base)

Auto-Animate

Smoothly transitions matching elements between consecutive slides using FLIP animation. Add auto-animate="true" to both slides and tag elements with matching data-auto-animate-id:

<x-slidewire::slide auto-animate="true">
    <div data-auto-animate-id="card" class="p-4 bg-slate-800 rounded w-1/3">
        <h3>Before</h3>
    </div>
</x-slidewire::slide>

<x-slidewire::slide auto-animate="true" auto-animate-duration="600">
    <div data-auto-animate-id="card" class="p-4 bg-slate-800 rounded w-full">
        <h3>After</h3>
    </div>
</x-slidewire::slide>

Elements without a matching source animate in from translateY(12px) + fade. The regular slide transition is suppressed when auto-animate is active.

Navigation

• Keyboard: Arrow keys, Space bar (linear advance)
• Click/tap: Click stage to advance; click controls to navigate
• Touch: Swipe left/right/up/down (scroll-aware)
• Deep link: #/slide/H for horizontal (1-indexed), #/slide/H/V for vertical

Built-in Themes

For custom themes and font configuration, see references/theming.md. For config file structure and DTOs, see references/configuration.md. For full component attribute tables, see references/components.md.

Common Patterns

Title slide:

<x-slidewire::slide class="flex flex-col items-center justify-center text-center">
    <h1 class="text-6xl font-bold tracking-tight">Talk Title</h1>
    <p class="text-2xl text-slate-400 mt-6">Speaker · Event · Date</p>
</x-slidewire::slide>

Section divider:

<x-slidewire::slide class="bg-gradient-to-br from-emerald-900 to-slate-950 flex items-center justify-center">
    <h2 class="text-5xl font-semibold text-emerald-300">Part 2</h2>
</x-slidewire::slide>

Image background:

<x-slidewire::slide
    background-image="https://example.com/photo.jpg"
    background-size="cover"
    background-position="center"
    background-opacity="0.4"
    class="flex items-end p-12"
>
    <h2 class="text-4xl font-bold text-white drop-shadow">Caption text</h2>
</x-slidewire::slide>

Reference Files

• references/components.md — Full attribute tables for all components
• references/configuration.md — Config file structure, SlidesConfig, ThemeConfig, FontConfig DTOs
• references/theming.md — Built-in theme details, custom themes, Phiki highlight themes, fonts