React-dark NPM

React Dark

React Dark is a published NPM module that can be integrated inside any ReactJS application. It can be used to integrate dark theme in a few easy steps. It provides you a functionality to customize dark themes as per the need. It also comes with a toggler to switch themes easily.

Snippet of the working application is displayed below.

Light Theme
Dark Theme

Important

This Module will remember your last theme set and will save it for the future. So when a user starts up an application again it will set the last applied theme automatically.

Prerequisites

NodeJS (check for it's installation on terminal using npm -v)

Usage

Add dark mode feature to your React App in just three simple steps.

Open your main CSS file and follow the steps mentioned.

1) Declare root variables (as per your choice). This will be displayed when dark mode is not enabled.

Note: Use these variables only for specifying values to your CSS properties.

For example :-

:root {
	--bg-color: #fff;
	--heading-color: #000;
}

and use it on any class. For example :-

.main_heading{
	color: var(--heading-color)
}

2) Now decalre the variables which you would like to change when it is changed to dark mode.

[data-theme="dark"] {
	--bg-color: #000;
	--heading-color: #fff;
}

And now your are good to go. Just import the module and use it inside your React Application.

Working

npm install --save react-dark

import  Darktheme  from  "react-dark";

JS

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Darktheme from "react-dark";

export default class Example extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <Darktheme/>
	//This will set the Background color to dark
      </div>    
      )
  }
}
export default Example;

Playground

Find Codepen Implementation of the module here

Development and Testing

Set-up the React-Dark module by dowloading its dependencies, using npm install command.
Build the module using npm run build
Link the module for testing using npm link command.
Change your directory to test-server directory, using cd test-server
Install the dependecies using npm install
Now run npm link react-dark
Congratulations! You have set-up the test server for react-dark. Now just run npm start from test-server directory to launch the test-server.
You don't need to stop this server, the changes made in the module will be reflected automatically each time you build them using npm run build