gitbrent/PptxGenJS

PptxGenJS

🚀 Features

PptxGenJS lets you generate professional PowerPoint presentations in JavaScript - directly from Node, React, Vite, Electron, or even the browser. The library outputs standards-compliant Open Office XML (OOXML) files compatible with:

• ✅ Microsoft PowerPoint
• ✅ Apple Keynote
• ✅ LibreOffice Impress
• ✅ Google Slides (via import)

Design custom slides, charts, images, tables, and templates programmatically - no PowerPoint install or license required.

Works Everywhere

• Supports every major modern browser - desktop and mobile
• Seamlessly integrates with Node.js, React, Angular, Vite, and Electron
• Compatible with PowerPoint, Keynote, LibreOffice, and other OOXML apps

Full-Featured

• Create all major slide objects: text, tables, shapes, images, charts, and more
• Define custom Slide Masters for consistent academic or corporate branding
• Supports SVGs, animated GIFs, YouTube embeds, RTL text, and Asian fonts

Simple & Powerful

• Ridiculously easy to use - create a presentation in 4 lines of code
• Full TypeScript definitions for autocomplete and inline documentation
• Includes 75+ demo slides covering every feature and usage pattern

Export Your Way

• Instantly download .pptx files from the browser with proper MIME handling
• Export as base64, Blob, Buffer, or Node stream
• Supports compression and advanced output options for production use

HTML to PowerPoint Magic

• Convert any HTML <table> to one or more slides with a single line of code → Explore the HTML-to-PPTX feature

🌐 Live Demos

Try PptxGenJS right in your browser - no setup required.

• Basic Slide Demo - Build a basic presentation in seconds
• Full Feature Showcase - Explore every available feature

Perfect for testing compatibility or learning by example - all demos run 100% in the browser.

📦 Installation

Choose your preferred method to install PptxGenJS:

Quick Install (Node-based)

npm install pptxgenjs

yarn add pptxgenjs

CDN (Browser Usage)

Use the bundled or minified version via jsDelivr:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gitbrent/pptxgenjs/dist/pptxgen.bundle.js"></script>

Includes the sole dependency (JSZip) in one file.

📁 Advanced: Separate Files, Direct Download

Download from GitHub: Latest Release

<script src="PptxGenJS/libs/jszip.min.js"></script>
<script src="PptxGenJS/dist/pptxgen.min.js"></script>

🚀 Universal Compatibility

PptxGenJS works seamlessly in modern web and Node environments, thanks to dual ESM and CJS builds and zero runtime dependencies. Whether you're building a CLI tool, an Electron app, or a web-based presentation builder, the library adapts automatically to your stack.

Supported Platforms

• Node.js – generate presentations in backend scripts, APIs, or CLI tools
• React / Angular / Vite / Webpack – just import and go, no config required
• Electron – build native apps with full filesystem access and PowerPoint output
• Browser (Vanilla JS) – embed in web apps with direct download support
• Serverless / Edge Functions – use in AWS Lambda, Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, etc.

Vite, Webpack, and modern bundlers automatically select the right build via the exports field in package.json.

Builds Provided

• CommonJS: dist/pptxgen.cjs.js
• ES Module: dist/pptxgen.es.js

📖 Documentation

Quick Start Guide

PptxGenJS PowerPoint presentations are created via JavaScript by following 4 basic steps:

Angular/React, ES6, TypeScript

import pptxgen from "pptxgenjs";

// 1. Create a new Presentation
let pres = new pptxgen();

// 2. Add a Slide
let slide = pres.addSlide();

// 3. Add one or more objects (Tables, Shapes, Images, Text and Media) to the Slide
let textboxText = "Hello World from PptxGenJS!";
let textboxOpts = { x: 1, y: 1, color: "363636" };
slide.addText(textboxText, textboxOpts);

// 4. Save the Presentation
pres.writeFile();

Script/Web Browser

// 1. Create a new Presentation
let pres = new PptxGenJS();

// 2. Add a Slide
let slide = pres.addSlide();

// 3. Add one or more objects (Tables, Shapes, Images, Text and Media) to the Slide
let textboxText = "Hello World from PptxGenJS!";
let textboxOpts = { x: 1, y: 1, color: "363636" };
slide.addText(textboxText, textboxOpts);

// 4. Save the Presentation
pres.writeFile();

That's really all there is to it!

💥 HTML-to-PowerPoint Magic

Convert any HTML <table> into fully formatted PowerPoint slides - automatically and effortlessly.

let pptx = new pptxgen();
pptx.tableToSlides("tableElementId");
pptx.writeFile({ fileName: "html2pptx-demo.pptx" });

Perfect for transforming:

• Dynamic dashboards and data reports
• Exportable grids in web apps
• Tabular content from CMS or BI tools

View Full Docs & Live Demo

📚 Full Documentation

Complete API reference, tutorials, and integration guides are available on the official docs site: https://gitbrent.github.io/PptxGenJS

🛠️ Issues / Suggestions

Please file issues or suggestions on the issues page on github, or even better, submit a pull request. Feedback is always welcome!

When reporting issues, please include a code snippet or a link demonstrating the problem. Here is a small jsFiddle that is already configured and uses the latest PptxGenJS code.

🆘 Need Help?

Sometimes implementing a new library can be a difficult task and the slightest mistake will keep something from working. We've all been there!

If you are having issues getting a presentation to generate, check out the code in the demos directory. There are demos for browser, node and, react that contain working examples of every available library feature.

• Use a pre-configured jsFiddle to test with: PptxGenJS Fiddle
• View questions tagged PptxGenJS on StackOverflow. If you can't find your question, ask it yourself - be sure to tag it pptxgenjs.
• Ask your AI pair programmer! All major LLMs have ingested the pptxgenjs library and have the ability to answer functionality questions and provide code.

🙏 Contributors

Thank you to everyone for the contributions and suggestions! ❤️

Special Thanks:

• Dzmitry Dulko - Getting the project published on NPM
• Michal Kacerovský - New Master Slide Layouts and Chart expertise
• Connor Bowman - Adding Placeholders
• Reima Frgos - Multiple chart and general functionality patches
• Matt King - Chart expertise
• Mike Wilcox - Chart expertise
• Joonas - react-pptx

PowerPoint shape definitions and some XML code via Officegen Project

🌟 Support the Open Source Community

If you find this library useful, consider contributing to open-source projects, or sharing your knowledge on the open social web. Together, we can build free tools and resources that empower everyone.

@[email protected]

📜 License

Copyright © 2015-present Brent Ely

MIT