Marp for VS Code

Marp for VS Code at a glance

Marp for VS Code brings the Marp Markdown presentation framework directly into the Visual Studio Code editor. Teams that prefer to keep slides as plain text rather than in traditional presentation software write their content in Markdown and watch the result in a live preview. The extension suits technical talks, documentation decks, and recurring status slides that should be versioned and maintained alongside code.

The extension is distributed through the Visual Studio Marketplace and is maintained on a regular cadence. New editions arrive as ordinary marketplace updates and are usually installed automatically by VS Code. Anyone who depends on a specific edition inside scripts or pipelines should pin the installed build, because defaults and the range of supported export formats can shift between editions.

When updating, it is worth checking the notes for each edition, especially when custom themes, directives, or export templates are in use. That makes changed defaults visible before they affect existing slide decks.