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Deckyard

Quickstart (Self-Host)

Get Deckyard running on your machine quickly.

What This Is

Section titled “What This Is”

Deckyard is a self-hosted web app for creating and presenting slide decks. It uses:

  • Plain Node.js server
  • Vanilla ESM client (no bundler)
  • File-based JSON persistence on disk

Requirements

Section titled “Requirements”
  • Node.js 18+
  • npm

Installation

Section titled “Installation”
Terminal window
# Clone the repository
git clone <repo-url>
cd deckyard


# Install dependencies
npm install


# Start the server
npm run start
# or: node server/server.js

Access

Section titled “Access”

Open your browser to: http://localhost:4177

Configuration

Section titled “Configuration”
  1. Copy env.example to .env
  2. Edit values as needed

See Environment Variables for the full configuration reference.

Next Steps

Section titled “Next Steps”