creating a proper vite-plugin-slidev for custom setups and integrated builds

[janis-me]

Hey!

TL;DR: I want to be able to integrate slidev into existing vite projects, generating multiple slide decks with a simple vite build or vite dev. I have some ideas on how to do this.

I stared working on a vite plugin to run slidev during a vite dev/build in any existing codebase, in my case an astro-based website. I know that slidev already has an internal vite plugin, but it doesn't allow me to configure the build like I want it to. I want to be able to set the output path, control assets better, setup a glob pattern to find the files to export etc. It should then allow me to build my website with vite, but also generate the slides with the same vite process.

Due to the limited exports of @slidev/cli, this ended up being a bit tricky. This has several reasons, but the main issues are that slidev commands like build and exportSlides are not exported from the CLI package. You could export them from the direct path, like import { exportSlides } from "@slidev/cli/dist/export-D1Zqc-n1.js";, but I don't have to tell you that this is not a nice idea xD

I would love to either

• include a new, public-facing vite plugin in this repo (like vite-plugin-slidev), or
• extend the existing vite plugin so it can be configured as a standalone entrypoint for slidev, not as a way to configure the CLI
• or, export more of the internal commands to allow such a plugin to be created by others (like me)

I already have a POC plugin working, so if this idea sounds right to you, I can open a example PR to include a plugin as a sub-package in this repo.

What do you think? Or, did I overlook some option to do what I want with the existing vite plugin?
Cheers!