@apollo/chakra-helpers

Apollo Chakra UI helpers

This package contains Chakra UI theme options that are shared between DX properties. This makes it easy to set up a theme with consistent color palettes, fonts, and component styles.

Installation

This package has peer dependencies on @apollo/space-kit and @chakra-ui/react. Make sure those packages are already installed in your project, and then install this package.

npm i @apollo/chakra-helpers

Usage

The easiest way to set up Chakra UI in a Gatsby website is by using the @chakra-ui/gatsby-plugin package.

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: ["@chakra-ui/gatsby-plugin"],
};

Next, use Gatsby component shadowing to shadow the default theme.js file in the plugin. Use the extendTheme function to override default Chakra theme values and export your new theme.

// src/@chakra-ui/gatsby-plugin/theme.js
import { fonts, components } from "@apollo/chakra-helpers";
import { extendTheme } from "@chakra-ui/react";

const theme = extendTheme({
  fonts,
  components,
});

export default theme;

Color palettes

This package also provides two functions for creating Chakra UI color palettes from Space Kit ones.

Space Kit's color palettes use names ranging from lightest to darkest and contain five colors for monochrome palettes and seven colors for all other colors. Chakra UI, on the other hand, features palettes with 10 numerical variants ranging from 50 to 900.

To account for these differences, we need to mix Space Kit colors to fill in the gaps between different numerical keys in their corresponding Chakra palettes.

import { colors } from "@apollo/space-kit/colors";
import { createGrayPalette, createColorPalette } from "@apollo/chakra-helpers";

const { silver, grey, midnight, indigo } = colors;

const theme = extendTheme({
  colors: {
    gray: createGrayPalette(silver, grey, midnight),
    indigo: createColorPalette(indigo),
  },
});