qwik-themes

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Create a reusable Qwik component library

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Qwik Themes

This is a direct Qwik port of the amazing library Next Themes. Please give the original creator some ❤️

An abstraction for themes in your Qwik app.

✅ Perfect dark mode in 2 lines of code
✅ System setting with prefers-color-scheme
✅ Themed browser UI with color-scheme
✅ No flash on load
✅ Sync theme across tabs and windows
✅ Disable flashing when changing themes
✅ Force pages to specific themes
✅ Class or data attribute selector
✅ useTheme hook

Install

$ bun add qwik-themes
# or
$ npm install qwik-themes
# or
$ yarn add qwik-themes
# or
$ pnpm add qwik-themes

Use

Wrap your root with the ThemeProvider

// src/root.tsx
import { ThemeProvider } from 'qwik-themes'

export  default component$(({ Component, pageProps }) => {
  return (
   <QwikCityProvider>
            <head>
                <meta charSet="utf-8" />
                <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json" />
                <RouterHead />
                <ServiceWorkerRegister />
            </head>
            <body lang="en">
                <ThemeProvider>
                    <RouterOutlet />
                </ThemeProvider>
            </body>
	</QwikCityProvider>
  )
})

HTML & CSS

That's it, now your Qwik app fully supports dark mode, including System preference with prefers-color-scheme. The theme is also immediately synced between tabs. By default, qwik-themes modifies the data-theme attribute on the html element, which you can easily use to style your app:

:root {
  /* Your default theme */
  --background: white;
  --foreground: black;
}

[data-theme='dark'] {
  --background: black;
  --foreground: white;
}

Note! If you set the attribute of your Theme Provider to class for Tailwind qwik-themes will modify the class attribute on the html element. See With Tailwind.

useTheme

Your UI will need to know the current theme and be able to change it. The useTheme hook provides theme information:

import { useTheme } from 'qwik-themes'

const ThemeChanger = component$(() => {
  const { theme, setTheme } = useTheme()

  return (
    <div>
      The current theme is: {theme}
      <button onClick={() => setTheme('light')}>Light Mode</button>
      <button onClick={() => setTheme('dark')}>Dark Mode</button>
    </div>
  )
})

API

Let's dig into the details.

ThemeProvider

All your theme configuration is passed to ThemeProvider.

storageKey = 'theme': Key used to store theme setting in localStorage
defaultTheme = 'system': Default theme name (for v0.0.12 and lower the default was light). If enableSystem is false, the default theme is light
forcedTheme: Forced theme name for the current page (does not modify saved theme settings)
enableSystem = true: Whether to switch between dark and light based on prefers-color-scheme
enableColorScheme = true: Whether to indicate to browsers which color scheme is used (dark or light) for built-in UI like inputs and buttons
disableTransitionOnChange = false: Optionally disable all CSS transitions when switching themes (example)
themes = ['light', 'dark']: List of theme names
attribute = 'data-theme': HTML attribute modified based on the active theme
- accepts class and data-* (meaning any data attribute, data-mode, data-color, etc.) (example)
value: Optional mapping of theme name to attribute value
- value is an object where key is the theme name and value is the attribute value (example)
nonce: Optional nonce passed to the injected script tag, used to allow-list the qwik-themes script in your CSP

useTheme

useTheme takes no parameters, but returns:

theme: Active theme name
setTheme(name): Function to update the theme
forcedTheme: Forced page theme or falsy. If forcedTheme is set, you should disable any theme switching UI
resolvedTheme: If enableSystem is true and the active theme is "system", this returns whether the system preference resolved to "dark" or "light". Otherwise, identical to theme
systemTheme: If enableSystem is true, represents the System theme preference ("dark" or "light"), regardless what the active theme is
themes: The list of themes passed to ThemeProvider (with "system" appended, if enableSystem is true)

Not too bad, right? Let's see how to use these properties with examples:

Examples

The Live Example shows qwik-themes in action, with dark, light, system themes and pages with forced themes.

Use System preference by default

<ThemeProvider>

Ignore System preference

If you don't want a System theme, disable it via enableSystem:

<ThemeProvider enableSystem={false}>

Class instead of data attribute

If your Qwik app uses a class to style the page based on the theme, change the attribute prop to class:

<ThemeProvider attribute="class">

Now, setting the theme to "dark" will set class="dark" on the html element.

Multi Class Themes

You can also use multi Class Themes like [dark, skeumorphic]

<ThemeProvider
    themes={[
						["simple", "light-yellow"],
						["simple", "dark-yellow"],
						["brutalist", "light-yellow"],
						["brutalist", "dark-yellow"],
						["hand-drawn", "light"],
						["hand-drawn", "dark"],
            ]
}>

and then you can simply change the theme as before, just with your arrays instead!

	const { setTheme } = useTheme()

  setTheme(["simple", "light-yellow"])

Force page to a theme

TODO

Disable transitions on theme change

The creator of qwik-themes wrote about this technique here. We can forcefully disable all CSS transitions before the theme is changed, and re-enable them immediately afterwards. This ensures your UI with different transition durations won't feel inconsistent when changing the theme.

To enable this behavior, pass the disableTransitionOnChange prop:

<ThemeProvider disableTransitionOnChange>

Differing DOM attribute and theme name

The name of the active theme is used as both the localStorage value and the value of the DOM attribute. If the theme name is "pink", localStorage will contain theme=pink and the DOM will be data-theme="pink". You cannot modify the localStorage value, but you can modify the DOM value.

If we want the DOM to instead render data-theme="my-pink-theme" when the theme is "pink", pass the value prop:

<ThemeProvider value={{ pink: 'my-pink-theme' }}>

Done! To be extra clear, this affects only the DOM. Here's how all the values will look:

const { theme } = useTheme()
// => "pink"

localStorage.getItem('theme')
// => "pink"

document.documentElement.getAttribute('data-theme')
// => "my-pink-theme"

More than light and dark mode

qwik-themes is designed to support any number of themes! Simply pass a list of themes:

<ThemeProvider themes={['pink', 'red', 'blue']}>

Note! When you pass themes, the default set of themes ("light" and "dark") are overridden. Make sure you include those if you still want your light and dark themes:

<ThemeProvider themes={['pink', 'red', 'blue', 'light', 'dark']}>

Without CSS variables

This library does not rely on your theme styling using CSS variables. You can hard-code the values in your CSS, and everything will work as expected (without any flashing):

html,
body {
  color: #000;
  background: #fff;
}

[data-theme='dark'],
[data-theme='dark'] body {
  color: #fff;
  background: #000;
}

CSS

You can also use CSS to hide or show content based on the current theme. To avoid the hydration mismatch, you'll need to render both versions of the UI, with CSS hiding the unused version. For example:

function ThemedImage() {
  return (
    <>
      {/* When the theme is dark, hide this div */}
      <div data-hide-on-theme="dark">
        <img src="light.png" width={400} height={400} />
      </div>

      {/* When the theme is light, hide this div */}
      <div data-hide-on-theme="light">
        <img src="dark.png" width={400} height={400} />
      </div>
    </>
  )
}

export default ThemedImage

[data-theme='dark'] [data-hide-on-theme='dark'],
[data-theme='light'] [data-hide-on-theme='light'] {
  display: none;
}

With Tailwind

Visit the live example • View the example source code

In your tailwind.config.js, set the dark mode property to class:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  darkMode: 'class'
}

Set the attribute for your Theme Provider to class:

// root.tsx
<ThemeProvider attribute="class">

If you're using the value prop to specify different attribute values, make sure your dark theme explicitly uses the "dark" value, as required by Tailwind.

That's it! Now you can use dark-mode specific classes:

<h1 className="text-black dark:text-white">

FAQ

Do I need to use CSS variables with this library?

Nope. See the example.

Can I set the class or data attribute on the body or another element?

Nope. If you have a good reason for supporting this feature, please open an issue.

Is the injected script minified?

Yes, using Terser.

Why is resolvedTheme necessary?

When supporting the System theme preference, you want to make sure that's reflected in your UI. This means your buttons, selects, dropdowns, or whatever you use to indicate the current theme should say "System" when the System theme preference is active.

If we didn't distinguish between theme and resolvedTheme, the UI would show "Dark" or "Light", when it should really be "System".

resolvedTheme is then useful for modifying behavior or styles at runtime:

const { resolvedTheme } = useTheme()

<div style={{ color: resolvedTheme === 'dark' ? white : black }}>

If we didn't have resolvedTheme and only used theme, you'd lose information about the state of your UI (you would only know the theme is "system", and not what it resolved to).

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Qwik Themes

Install

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HTML & CSS

useTheme

API

ThemeProvider

useTheme

Examples

Use System preference by default

Ignore System preference

Class instead of data attribute

Multi Class Themes

Force page to a theme

Disable transitions on theme change

Differing DOM attribute and theme name

More than light and dark mode

Without CSS variables

CSS

With Tailwind

FAQ