Legend Talks

Talks, custom presentation components, assets, and speaker notes for Legend Slides. The Slides application and presentation engine live in Legend Apps.

Talks

The React Native desktop series keeps related conference versions together:

• React Conf
• RNConnection
• Original desktop talk
• Effects gallery

Keep each deck's components and assets together under its directory. The compiler rejects local imports that escape that directory. Share components across versions of a talk within its folder; introduce cross-talk sharing only when needed.

Open a talk

Open an .mdx file in Legend Slides. With a configured Legend Apps development checkout, run from that checkout:

bun run slides run macos -- /absolute/path/to/legend-talks/talks/react-native-desktop/reactcon.mdx

The application supplies React Native, presentation APIs, and native dependencies. Playing a deck does not require installing dependencies in this repository.

Validate and test

Install Legend Apps dependencies using that repository's instructions. Put the checkouts beside each other, or set LEGEND_APPS_PATH to the Legend Apps checkout:

export LEGEND_APPS_PATH=/absolute/path/to/legend-apps
bun run setup
bun run validate
bun run test
bun run typecheck

Validation compiles every MDX file, including archived versions and diagnostic decks. To compile one file, pass its path to bun run validate. Tests run in separate processes because Bun caches native module mocks. Typechecking covers talk components; runtime compilation and native rehearsal remain separate checks.

Setup creates ignored links to the host checkout and its installed dependencies. Talk tests use test-support/legend-apps for the host's mocks and engine internals. Run setup again when changing host checkouts; it refuses to overwrite real files.

History

The initial history contains the commits affecting apps/slides/decks/ in Legend Apps, with that prefix renamed to talks/. Unrelated application files were excluded. Commit hashes change during extraction; authors and commit messages are preserved. The migration also preserves the local diagnostic deck present at the time of extraction.

Existing per-talk rehearsal notes describe earlier checks. They are historical evidence, not a guarantee that every later engine version behaves identically.