Theme

This library contains the StackSpot theme (css) and many utilities to use and manipulate it.

Attention: this is not Citric, our design system (DS), instead, it's a configuration that we pass to it.

Platforms: this library is compatible with the web (browser) and VSCode (used by the StackSpot AI extension).

Incomplete set of tokens

This library is mostly dealing with colors. The rest of the theme is still defined by Citric. This will be reviewed in a future version, along with Citric itself.

Using the theme

1. Import the css into your main project file:

import '@stack-spot/portal-theme/dist/theme.css'

2. Setup the theme provider for Citric.

import { CSSToCitricAdapter } '@stack-spot/portal-theme'

const App = () => (
  <CSSToCitricAdapter>
    // Your content goes here. Every component of Citric will be aware of the theme from this point on.
  </CSSToCitricAdapter>
)

3. You can now use the theme in your jsx to define colors:

<p style={{ color: theme.color.primary['500'] }}>Hello World!</p>

4. You can also use the css variables defined by the theme in your css files:

.my-class {
  background-color: var(--light-400);
}

Reading and changing the current theme

• getThemeName(): gets the current theme name.
• getThemeKind(): returns "dark" if the theme is mostly dark or "light" if the theme is mostly light. This can be different than the theme name.
• useThemeName(): a React Hook to get the current theme name. Use this if you need your content to update when the theme changes.
• useThemeKind(): a React Hook to get the current theme kind. Use this if you need your content to update when the theme changes.
• loadTheme(): loads the theme from the cookie "theme".
• setTheme(themeName): changes the current theme.

Observations:

• The default theme is "dark".
• The theme is always defined by the attributes data-theme-name and data-theme-kind on the tag body.
• The theme automatically updates across multiple windows.

Utilities

• withOpacity(variableName): applies an opacity to a theme css color variable.
• contrastColor(color, level): gets the ideal contrast color for the color passed as parameter.
• createColorSequence(options): generates a pre-defined, cyclic, set of ideally spread colors from the theme palette.
• paletteSequence(options): same as createColorSequence, but generates the css variable instead.
• valueOf(variableName): gets the value of a CSS variable.
• listToClass(classList): removes all falsy values from the array and joins every item into a valid class string.