## One source, many renderings
The source below is a story: plain Markdown, with a `---` line between scenes. Next to it, Récit
tells it as a deck. Click the deck, then use the arrow keys.
Source
Deck
The same file also reads as a [documentation page](/one-source): each scene becomes a section,
without a single line changed.
## Every format
Each format is a way to tell the same source. The deck and the documentation page are available
today, and the [motion](https://motion.recit.dev) films already play in the browser; the others follow the
roadmap, one phase at a time.
## Getting started
Récit is not published on npm yet: packages arrive with the public alpha. Until then, run it from
the repository (Node.js 22+ and pnpm).
```bash
git clone https://github.com/vguerand/recit.git
cd recit
pnpm install
pnpm build
```
Start an example deck with hot reload:
```bash
pnpm --filter recit-example-deck-starter dev
```
Then write your own story with the `recit` command, built in `packages/cli`:
```bash
alias recit="node $PWD/packages/cli/bin/recit.js"
recit init slides.md --config # slides.md and recit.config.ts
recit dev slides.md --open # live preview
recit export slides.md # PDF, or --html for a single file
```
The [documentation](https://docs.recit.dev) walks through each step.
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