Demo Time empowers you to script flawless coding demonstrations and present slides seamlessly within Visual Studio Code. Eliminate typos and missteps, ensuring engaging and stress-free presentations.

Documentation 👉 demotime.show

Features

• Scripted Demos: Automate your coding demonstrations to maintain a perfect flow.​
• Code Highlighting: Emphasize specific code segments to draw audience attention.​
• Integrated Slides: Present slides directly within VS Code for a cohesive experience.​
• Customizable Actions: Execute various VS Code commands and tasks as part of your demo.
• PowerPoint Integration: Seamlessly move from slides to code using the PowerPoint integration.

Getting Started

1. Installation: Install the extension.​
2. Initialization: After installation, initialize the extension in your project by opening the Explorer panel in VS Code. Locate the Demo Time view and click on the "Initialize" button. This action creates a .demo folder in your workspace containing either a demo.json or demo.yaml file, depending on your chosen format.​
3. Creating Demos: Populate the act file with your actions, defining each step and action as required.​ More information about the available actions can be found in the supported actions documentation section.

Documentation

For detailed instructions, advanced configurations, and best practices, please refer to the comprehensive documentation available at https://demotime.show. This resource offers in-depth guides and examples to help you maximize the extension's capabilities.

Demo Time Terminology

Demo Time follows a theatrical hierarchy to keep your demos organized and easy to follow: Play → Act → Scene → Move.

• Play: Your full demo project (.demo folder) containing all acts and assets.
• Act: A single demo file (*.yml or *.json) focused on one topic.
• Scene: A section within an act that groups related moves.
• Moves: The individual steps in a scene that run in order (for example: create a file, open it, highlight a block).

Example act file

Here is an example act file in JSON format:

{
  "$schema": "https://demotime.show/demo-time.schema.json",
  "title": "Sample demo",
  "description": "This is a sample demo configuration to show the capabilities of the extension.",
  "version": 3,
  "scenes": [
    {
      "title": "Step 1",
      "description": "This is step 1",
      "moves": [
        {
          "action": "create",
          "path": "sample.json",
          "content": "{\n  \"firstName\": \"Elio\",\n  \"lastName\": \"Struyf\"\n}"
        },
        {
          "action": "open",
          "path": "sample.json"
        },
        {
          "action": "highlight",
          "path": "sample.json",
          "position": "2:3"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Step 2",
      "description": "This is step 2",
      "moves": [
        {
          "action": "snippet",
          "contentPath": "./snippets/insert_and_highlight.json",
          "args": {
            "MAIN_FILE": "sample.json",
            "CONTENT_PATH": "content.txt",
            "CONTENT_POSITION": "3",
            "HIGHLIGHT_POSITION": "4"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

You can also explore a comprehensive example in the following GitHub Repositories:

• Introduction presentation about Demo Time
• Demo Time - Demo Presentation
• presentation-github-actions
• presentation-m365-playwright-github-actions
• presentation-web-quality-playwright
• presentation-testing-smarter-ai-playwright

Testing

Run linting and unit tests with:

npm run lint
npm test

Tests use Jest with built-in coverage. New tests are located in the tests/ directory.

Support

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License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.