Advanced Concepts

Build & Deployment

There are a variety of ways to host your Spectacle presentation.

1. If you are integrating this lib yourself, take your build and follow the linked instructions from any of (but not limited to) the following providers: Netlify, Vercel, or Surge.

2. If using spectacle-cli (either spectacle --action build or spectacle-boilerplate with yarn clean && yarn build) your output is dist/ and upload that directory to any of the above static hosting providers.

Keyboard Controls

Key Combination	Function
Right Arrow	Next Slide
Left Arrow	Previous Slide
Alt/Option + O	Toggle Overview Mode
Alt/Option + P	Toggle Presenter Mode
Alt/Option + F	Toggle Fullscreen Mode

Query Parameters

A handful of query parameters are supported within your Spectacle presentation. Append your URL with one of the following parameters, like so: &<parameter>=true. To combine parameters, use multiple & to separate the parameters, e.g.: &exportMode=true&printMode=true

Parameter	Description of Use
exportMode	For exporting your presentation as a PDF. Add it to your project URL and "Save to PDF" directly from the browser
printMode	Turns your slideshow into a printer-friendly, black & white version. Meant for use concurrently with ?exportMode e.g. ?exportMode=true&printMode=true
presenterMode	Displays a Presenter Mode for ease of presentation. For more info on this mode, please see Presenting in our Basic Concepts doc