@chakra-ui/theme

What is @chakra-ui/theme?

@chakra-ui/theme is a package that provides a set of design tokens and theming capabilities for Chakra UI, a popular React component library. It allows developers to customize the appearance of their applications by defining colors, typography, spacing, and other design aspects in a consistent and reusable manner.

What are @chakra-ui/theme's main functionalities?

Custom Theme Creation

This feature allows you to create a custom theme by extending the default Chakra UI theme. You can define your own color palette, typography, and other design tokens.

const customTheme = extendTheme({
  colors: {
    brand: {
      100: '#f7fafc',
      900: '#1a202c',
    },
  },
});

export default customTheme;

Responsive Design Tokens

This feature allows you to define responsive design tokens such as breakpoints, ensuring your application looks good on different screen sizes.

const customTheme = extendTheme({
  breakpoints: {
    sm: '30em',
    md: '48em',
    lg: '62em',
    xl: '80em',
  },
});

export default customTheme;

Component Style Overrides

This feature allows you to override the default styles of Chakra UI components. You can customize the base styles, sizes, and variants of components to fit your design requirements.

const customTheme = extendTheme({
  components: {
    Button: {
      baseStyle: {
        fontWeight: 'bold',
      },
      sizes: {
        xl: {
          h: '56px',
          fontSize: 'lg',
        },
      },
      variants: {
        solid: {
          bg: 'brand.500',
          color: 'white',
        },
      },
    },
  },
});

export default customTheme;

Other packages similar to @chakra-ui/theme

styled-components

styled-components is a popular library for styling React applications using tagged template literals. It allows you to write actual CSS code to style your components. Unlike @chakra-ui/theme, which provides a set of predefined design tokens and theming capabilities, styled-components gives you more flexibility and control over your styles but requires more manual setup.

emotion

Emotion is a library designed for writing CSS styles with JavaScript. It provides powerful and flexible styling capabilities, similar to styled-components. Emotion allows you to style your components using both CSS-in-JS and traditional CSS approaches. Compared to @chakra-ui/theme, Emotion offers more granular control over styles but does not come with a predefined theme or design tokens.

theme-ui

theme-ui is a library for building consistent, themeable React applications. It provides a set of design tokens and theming capabilities similar to @chakra-ui/theme. However, theme-ui is more focused on providing a flexible and extensible theming system, allowing you to define and manage your design tokens and styles in a more modular way.

README

@chakra-ui/theme

The default theme package for Chakra UI's components.