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The best Spectacle alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to Spectacle, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Spectacle

A React library for building slide presentations by writing JSX, including live code demos.

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    reveal.js

    Open source · MIT · ★ 72.5k

    A free HTML framework for building slide presentations that run in a web browser.

    Best for: Developers who already write HTML, CSS, or JavaScript and want full control over slide design; People who want presentations as code that can be versioned and reviewed like other files

    Full review Spectacle vs reveal.js
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    Slidev

    Open source · MIT · ★ 49.3k

    Write presentation slides in Markdown, rendered with Vue and Vite.

    Best for: Developers who want to present code, technical talks, or architecture diagrams; People comfortable editing Markdown and who prefer version-controlled slides

    Full review Spectacle vs Slidev
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    mdx-deck

    Open source · MIT · ★ 11.5k

    Build slide presentations in React using MDX, with a zero-config setup.

    Best for: Developers who already write React and want to present technical material; Teams that keep documentation in Markdown and want slides from the same source

    Full review Spectacle vs mdx-deck
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    Chakra UI

    Open source · MIT · ★ 40.7k

    A React component library for building accessible web apps and design systems quickly.

    Best for: React developers who want prebuilt UI components instead of styling from scratch; Teams building web apps or internal design systems in React

    Full review
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    Zustand

    Open source · MIT · ★ 58.9k

    A small React state-management library built on hooks, with no providers needed.

    Best for: React developers who want simpler shared state than Redux; Apps that need state shared across many components without wrapping them in providers

    Full review
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    CopilotKit

    Open source · MIT · ★ 38.5k

    A TypeScript toolkit for building chat and generative UI on top of AI agents in web, mobile, and chat apps.

    Best for: Developers adding an AI assistant or agent interface to a React or Next.js app; Teams who want one agent backend to serve a web app, a mobile app, and Slack or Teams

    Full review
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    TanStack Table

    Open source · MIT · ★ 28.5k

    Headless library for building customizable data tables in TypeScript and JavaScript.

    Best for: Developers building custom data tables in React, Vue, Solid, Svelte or another supported framework; Teams that already have a design system and want a table that matches it

    Full review
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    Emotion

    Open source · MIT · ★ 18k

    A JavaScript library for writing CSS styles inside your code, mainly for React apps.

    Best for: React developers who want styles colocated with components; Teams that want to combine and reuse style objects in JavaScript

    Full review

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Spectacle. We don't take payment for placement.