open-slide vs frontend-slides
Agent-assisted slide creation compared
open-slide is a React and TypeScript framework for building, editing, and presenting slide decks, while frontend-slides guides a coding agent to create standalone HTML presentations. The main difference is that open-slide provides a reusable slide runtime, whereas frontend-slides focuses on an agent-led workflow and portable HTML output.
open-slide: Build Agent-Authored React Presentations
open-slide is a TypeScript framework built on React that turns coding-agent-written components into presentations on a fixed 1920 × 1080 canvas. It handles preview, navigation, presenting, and exports, so agents can focus on slide content.
frontend-slides: Create HTML Presentations with a Coding Agent
Frontend Slides is an agent skill for building styled web presentations from a brief or an existing PowerPoint. It suits people who want to choose a visual direction without writing CSS, then customize or share the resulting HTML deck.
| open-slide | frontend-slides | |
|---|---|---|
| Language | TypeScript | JavaScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Stars | 9.4k | 30.1k |
| Forks | 677 | 2.4k |
| Last analyzed | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 3, 2026 |
Key differences
- open-slide renders React components in a fixed 1920 × 1080 canvas; frontend-slides generates standalone HTML with inline CSS and JavaScript for fixed 16:9 slides.
- open-slide includes a browser-based editor experience with slide management, comments, and presentation controls; frontend-slides uses visual style previews to guide deck generation.
- open-slide exports to static HTML, PDF, and editable PowerPoint; frontend-slides converts PowerPoint into HTML and provides scripts for PDF export and Vercel deployment.
- open-slide is written in TypeScript and React; frontend-slides is an agent skill whose project language is JavaScript.
- Both projects use the MIT license and are not archived. The supplied figures list 8.8k stars and 620 forks for open-slide, and 30.1k stars and 2.4k forks for frontend-slides.
- open-slide suits people who want a React-based deck environment; frontend-slides suits people who want an agent to generate or convert a portable HTML deck, with filesystem and shell access.
Choose open-slide if you…
- need React components and a fixed 1920 × 1080 slide canvas.
- want built-in navigation, presenter mode, speaker notes, or browser-based slide comments.
- need exports including editable PowerPoint files.
Choose frontend-slides if you…
- want a standalone HTML deck without an npm or build step.
- prefer choosing a visual style from previews rather than writing CSS directly.
- need to turn an existing PowerPoint into an HTML slideshow.
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