Where to Find Slidev Documentation, Showcases, and Learning Resources

Slidev's official site (sli.dev) organizes everything you need into four resource areas: the Guide and Reference for documentation, Showcases and Curated Covers for examples, Theme Gallery and Addon Gallery for extensions, and Learning Resources plus Release Notes for ongoing learning. All of these are reachable from the site's top navigation. The current documented version is v53.0.0, and the site is available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.

Official Documentation

The documentation is split into two main sections, both linked from the top navigation bar.

Guide

The Guide covers the core workflow of building a presentation:

• Why Slidev — the rationale behind the tool
• Getting Started — initial setup
• Syntax Guide — how to write slides
• User Interface — the presenter and editing UI
• Animations — motion and transitions
• Theme & Addons — extending a deck
• Components and Layouts — building blocks for slides
• Exporting and Hosting — getting a deck out the door
• Work with AI — AI-related workflows
• FAQ — common questions

Reference

The Reference section is the lookup layer for configuration and internals:

• Built-in — CLI, components, and layouts that ship with Slidev
• Customize — configurations, directory structure, highlighter, Vite and plugins, the Vue app, UnoCSS, code runners, transformers, Monaco, KaTeX, Mermaid, routes, shortcuts, context menu, fonts, and pre-parser
• Advanced — global context, writing layouts, writing themes, and writing addons

If you are configuring a specific integration (Mermaid, KaTeX, Monaco), go straight to the matching page under Customize rather than reading the Guide top to bottom.

For LLM and tooling use

The site exposes two optimized Markdown endpoints:

• /llms.txt — optimized Markdown documentation
• /llms-full.txt — the full documentation bundle

These are useful when you want to feed Slidev's docs into an AI assistant or a documentation tool instead of browsing the HTML site.

Showcases and Examples

Two navigation entries point to real decks and visual references:

• Showcases — presentations built with Slidev
• Curated Covers — a collection of cover designs

Use Showcases when you want to see how a finished deck behaves, and Curated Covers when you are choosing a visual starting point.

Themes and Addons

The site maintains two galleries for extensions:

These are the canonical places to browse before writing your own theme or addon — the Reference's Writing Themes and Writing Addons pages cover the authoring side.

Learning Resources and Release Notes

• Learning Resources — curated material for learning Slidev
• Release Notes — version history; the site currently documents v53.0.0

Release Notes is the place to check when an upgrade changes behavior, since the documented version number appears in the site footer alongside the language switcher.

Quick Reference

Slidev is released under the MIT License (Copyright © 2020–2025 Anthony Fu), so the source and documentation are openly available alongside these site resources.