scrolly 0.3.0

CLI that compiles a JSON5 deck + slide files into a self-contained 2D-canvas HTML presentation.

scrolly

Compile a JSON5 deck into a single, self-contained, scrollable 2D-canvas HTML presentation.

Liked by humans; understood by agents.

Why it's different

• A 2D canvas you fly around, not a linear reel. Slides sit on an integer grid connected by edges; readers zoom out to a deck map and zoom into any slide to scroll through it.
• Scroll-driven keyframe animation. Element properties (position, size, opacity, scale, angle) interpolate as the reader scrolls — no timeline, no autoplay.
• One self-contained HTML file. A default build inlines every asset into a single index.html with zero external loads — open it by double-clicking, host it anywhere, email it.
• Agent-friendly. The CLI exposes full help, input schemas, deck introspection, and numbered error codes, so agentic coding tools immediately understand how to author and debug scrolly decks.

Installation

pip install scrolly        # or: uv tool install scrolly

Quickstart

scrolly init my-deck                                    # scaffold a starter deck
scrolly build my-deck/deck.deck.json --out out --force  # compile to one HTML file
open out/index.html                                     # double-click anywhere

A deck is a .deck.json manifest plus one .slide.json per slide (both parsed as JSON5):

// deck.deck.json
{
  title: "My Deck",
  slides: [
    { id: "intro", position: [0, 0], source: "slides/intro.slide.json" },
  ],
  edges: [],
}

// slides/intro.slide.json
{
  title: "My Deck",
  elements: [
    { markdown: "# My Deck\n\nWelcome to your new presentation." },
  ],
}

Elements

Slides hold elements of six types — markdown, image, image_sequence, mermaid, html, and iframe — each animatable via scroll-driven keyframes. See the element reference for fields and examples.

Learn more

• Documentation — guided walkthrough, concepts, authoring, and the full reference, with a live interactive deck right on the homepage.
• Examples — including the stacked-diffs hero deck.
• Changelog.

License

MIT.