
React to PPTX: The Unsolved Problem That's Costing Developers Thousands of Hours
React to PPTX: The Unsolved Problem That's Costing Developers Thousands of Hours Look, I need to get something off my chest. We're building PitchShow , an AI presentation studio that turns ideas into animated slides. Our tech stack is modern: React, Framer Motion, AI narrative generation. But here's the thing that keeps me up at night— exporting those beautiful, buttery-smooth web animations into PowerPoint format is a goddamn nightmare . I'm not talking about static slides. That's solved. I'm talking about preserving keyframes, easing curves, spring physics, gesture controls —all the stuff that makes Framer Motion the gold standard for React animations (42% market share in 2026, according to npm trends). Turns out, PowerPoint doesn't speak the same language as the web. And honestly? This shouldn't be a problem in 2026. But it is. The Problem: Two Worlds That Don't Talk Here's what happened when we first tried to export a Framer Motion animation to PPTX: We built a React component with
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