Dejavu

Dejavu intends to be a tool to facilitate for Jupyter users to generate static outputs from their notebooks, mimicking the behavior of voilà.

Running dejavu

Dejavu works exactly the same as nbconvert and you can use all command line options that you would with nbconvert. To run a default instance:

jupyter dejavu notebook.ipynb

In case you want to show code in addition to its output use the flag --show-input.

Configuring the Notebook for slides presentations

In case the user intends to do a slide presentation out of their Jupyter notebook it’s recommended to use the reveal template. In orders to obtain a better result from it’s advised to use the slides metadatas available in the cells:

• In the notebook, select a cell and click on the “Property Inspector menu”

Tip

The “Property Inspector menu” can be located in the right side bar, its symbol contains two gears.

• Select a cell in the notebook

• In the Property Inspector menu select the cell’s slide type:

  • Slide

  • Sub-Slide

  • Fragment

  • Skip

  • Notes

• Repeat the process for all cells