Blank page when installing slidev globally

[collinmccarthy]

Describe the bug

The getting started guide for a "single file installation" doesn't seem to be working for me. It doesn't give any warnings or errors, just has an empty browser page.

Minimal reproduction

I ran the following.

brew install npm
npm i -g @slidev/cli
slidev slides.md

When it prompted me I created the file (and I checked it has the standard getting started content). But all of the URLs printed just show an empty webpage, and the terminal window seems to be unresponsive. I tried adding slidev --log=info slides.md but I don't any additional debugging info printed out.

Previously I tried this with the non-global install instructions, and it worked, but I don't want to create these huge folders for every slide show. I just want to have a ton of single .md files (e.g. one for every weekly meeting) that I can store like any other file in my repo, like I did when I used Marp.

So what am I doing wrong here with this global install? Or if I really want to use single files for my workflow should I be using Marp instead?

Environment

• Slidev version: v51.3.0 (global)
• Browser: Chrome v133.0.6943.142 and Safari v18.3 (20620.2.4.11.5)
• OS: macOS v15.3.1 (Sequoia)
• Node: v23.9.0