Toolazy-react-theme NPM

toolazy-react-theme

Theme manager for React and React Native projects. Make sure you are using React version 16.8.0 / React Native version 0.59 or higher.

Quick start

We expect you having an existing react application - if not give create-react-app / react-native init a try. I will show you step-by-step to use this library.

First: Installation

toolazy-react-theme is delivered primarily via npm . (https://www.npmjs.com/package/toolazy-react-theme)

# using npm install
$ npm i toolazy-react-theme

Second: Configure toolazy-react-theme

Create a new file theme.js beside your index.js containing following content:

import {toolazyReactTheme} from 'toolazy-react-theme';

const DarkTheme = {
  tabBarActive: '#FFF',
  tabBarInactive: 'green',
};

const LightTheme = {
  tabBarActive: 'red',
  tabBarInactive: 'rgba(0,0,0,.27)',
};

toolazyReactTheme.init({
  themesResource: {
    dark: DarkTheme,
    light: LightTheme,
  },
  currentTheme: 'dark',
});

export default toolazyReactTheme;

Then import that in index.js:

import {AppRegistry} from 'react-native';
import App from './App';
import {name as appName} from './app.json';
import './theme'; // I'm here.

AppRegistry.registerComponent(appName, () => App);

Everything is ready, but how to use it? Let's go...

Third: Usage example

The components you need to use theme variable must be wrapped by withToolazyReactTheme HOC.

With Class component:

import React from 'react';
import {Text} from 'react-native';
// the Higher-order component (HOC)
import {withToolazyReactTheme} from 'toolazy-react-theme';

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
 constructor(props) {
  super(props);
 }
 render() {
  console.log(this.props); // You theme should be here.
  const {theme} = this.props;
  return <Text style={{color: theme.tabBarActive}}>Hi friend</Text>
 }
}

// Wrap your component with HOC
export default withToolazyReactTheme()(MyComponent);

With Function component:

import React from 'react';
import {Text} from 'react-native';

// the Higher-order component (HOC)
import {withToolazyReactTheme} from 'toolazy-react-theme';

const MyComponent = (props) => {
  return (
   <>
    <Text style={{color: props.theme.tabBarActive}}>Hi friend</Text>
   </>
  );
}

// Wrap your component with HOC
export default withToolazyReactTheme()(MyComponent);

Fourth: Change theme

The interesting part here is Theme.changeTheme(theme) which will make current theme you pass available for all the components wrapped by withToolazyReactTheme()(MyComponent)

At the Configure step, you have been created a config file called theme.js, you can import to anywhere and use it:

import React from 'react';
import {View, Button} from 'react-native';
import Theme from 'path/to/theme.js';

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
 constructor(props) {
  super(props);
 }
 
 render() {
  return (
    <View>
      <Button 
        onPress={
          () => {
            Theme.changeTheme(Theme.getCurrentTheme() === 'light'? 'dark' : 'light');
          }
        } 
        title={'Press me to Change Your Theme'} 
      />
    </View>
  )
 }
 
}

Methods

Methods	Description
`Theme.changeTheme(theme)`	`theme`: `String` Ex: `'dark'` or `'light'` This function make your app change `theme` variable and apply to all the components wrapped by `withToolazyReactTheme` Higher-order Component
`Theme.getThemesResource()`	Return your theme resource. It's an object.
`Theme.getCurrentTheme()`	Return the current theme name. It's a string.
`Theme.getTheme()`	Return the theme you're using. It's an object

Tips Tricks

You no need to use Redux to manage your themes. Say no to connect() mapStateToProps mapDispatchToProps if it's not needed. You can import Theme from 'path/to/theme.js' everywhere and use all methods above.

Tip 1: Detect your theme has been changed.

Let's say you have 2 components called MyComponent and ToggleComponent. MyComponent is using theme and ToogleComponent is not. ToggleComponent make a change theme action. You need to detect and do something in MyComponent.

Create toogle-component.js file

import React from 'react';
import Theme from 'path/to/theme.js';

const ToggleComponent = () => {
  return (
    <Button 
      onPress={
        () => {
          Theme.changeTheme(Theme.getCurrentTheme() === 'light'? 'dark' : 'light');
        }
      } 
      title={'Press me to Change Your Theme'} 
    />
  );
}

export default ToggleComponent

Create my-component.js file

import React, {useEffect, useRef} from 'react';
import {Text} from 'react-native';
import {withToolazyReactTheme} from 'toolazy-react-theme';

const MyComponent = (props) => {
  const previousTheme = useRef(props.theme);
  useEffect(() => {
    if (previousTheme.current !== props.theme) {
      console.log('Theme in MyComponent updated');
    }
    previousTheme.current = props.theme;
  });

  return (
    <>
      <Text style={{color: props.theme.tabBarActive}}>Hi friend</Text>
    </>
  );
};

export default withToolazyReactTheme()(MyComponent);

As you can see, we have two separate components but When you click on the "Press me to Change Your Theme" button, theme will be changed and MyComponet updated. You can detect that change by using useRef and useEffect like above if it's React function component or you can use componentDidUpdate(prevProps) for React class component and compare if(prevProps.theme !== this.props.theme) as well.