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No More PowerPoint - Use Marp

 
  • Feb 19, 2025

Last week, I was tasked with giving a presentation on “Dependabot” - a tool for automatically updating dependencies in projects.

After the last presentations, I felt tired of PowerPoint and decided to do something different.

Why I got tired of PowerPoint

Form, form, form. I was tired of the form. PowerPoint forces to focus on form, layouts, colors, and pixels etc. I don’t like frontend development, I’m not a designer. I prefer to focus on the content, not the layout, pixels. I a presentation that was simple and minimalistic.

The Office meme

Marp - a simple solution

I used Markdown - a text format for creating presentations. Without using any AI :P

It’s simple because all you need is a Markdown text file and a tool to display such a file, such as the Marp for VS Code plugin. Then you can export the presentation to HTML, PDF. IF you don’t use visual studio code, then you can use for example CLI to generate a presentation in PDF/HTML format.

The simplicity of this solution convinced me.

Example of Marp presentation

---
marp: true
theme: default
paginate: true
backgroundColor: #fff
style: |
  .columns {
    display: grid;
    grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr));
    gap: 1rem;
  }
  .small-text {
    font-size: 0.75em;
  }
  .center {
    text-align: center;
  }

  header,
  footer {
    padding:20px
  }

  img {
    max-width: 100%;
    max-height: 100%;
  }
---

# :popcorn:Dependabot: Automated Dependency Updates
![bg right](./dp_logo.png)

<small>
Michał Mazur
</small>

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# What is Dependabot? 🤖

Imagine having a dedicated team member who:

- Never sleeps and its fully automated
- Checks your dependencies 24/7
- Creates perfect pull requests
- Knows about security issues before you do
- Supports multiple ecosystems:
  - github actions, npm, pip, Maven, NuGet, Bundler...

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# Short Live Demo Time! 🎬

In a result you can get sth like that in PDF format: pdf

Wrap-up

I hope the article at least intrigued you, you learned something new.

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