nextjs-themes
Advanced tools
This project is inspired by next-themes. Next-themes is an awesome package, however, it requires wrapping everything in a provider. The provider has to be a client component as it uses hooks. And thus, it takes away all the benefits of Server Components.
This project is inspired by next-themes. Next-themes is an awesome package, however, it requires wrapping everything in a provider. The provider has to be a client component as it uses hooks. And thus, it takes away all the benefits of Server Components.
nextjs-themes removes this limitation and enables you to unleash the full power of React 18 Server Components. In addition, more features are coming up soon... Stay tuned!
appDiruseTheme hookCheck out the live example.
$ pnpm add nextjs-themes
# or
$ npm install nextjs-themes
# or
$ yarn add nextjs-themes
$ pnpm add nextjs-themes-lite
# or
$ npm install nextjs-themes-lite
# or
$ yarn add nextjs-themes-lite
You need Zustand as a peer-dependency
The best way is to add a Custom App to use by modifying _app as follows:
Adding dark mode support takes 2 lines of code:
import { ThemeSwitcher } from "next-themes";
function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
return (
<>
<ThemeSwitcher forcedTheme={Component.theme} />
<Component {...pageProps} />
</>
);
}
export default MyApp;
⚡🎉Boom! Just a couple of lines and your dark mode is ready!
Check out examples for advanced usage.
Update your app/layout.jsx to add ThemeSwitcher from nextjs-themes.
// app/layout.jsx
import { ThemeSwitcher } from "next-themes";
export default function Layout({ children }) {
return (
<html>
<head />
<body>
<ThemeSwitcher />
{children}
</body>
</html>
);
}
Woohoo! You just added dark mode and you can also use Server Component! Isn't that awesome!
That's it, your Next.js app fully supports dark mode, including System preference with prefers-color-scheme. The theme is also immediately synced between tabs. By default, next-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;
}
In case your components need to know the current theme and be able to change it. The useTheme hook provides theme information:
import { useTheme } from "nextjs-themes";
const ThemeChanger = () => {
/* you can also improve performance by using selectors
* const [theme, setTheme] = useTheme(state => [state.theme, state.setTheme]);
*/
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>
);
};
import { ForceTheme } from "nextjs-themes";
function MyPage() {
return (
<>
<ForceTheme theme={"my-theme"} />
...
</>
);
}
export default MyPage;
For pages router, you have 2 options. One is the same as the app router and the other option which is compatible with next-themes is to add theme to your page component as follows.
function MyPage() {
return <>...</>;
}
MyPage.theme = "my-theme";
export default MyPage;
In a similar way, you can also force color scheme.
Forcing color scheme will apply your defaultDark or defaultLight theme, configurable via hooks.
Full docs coming soon!
Licensed as MIT open source.
Note: This package uses cookies to sync theme with server components
with 💖 by Mayank Kumar Chaudhari
FAQs
Unleash the Power of React Server Components! Use multiple themes on your site with confidence, without losing any advantages of React Server Components.
The npm package nextjs-themes receives a total of 772 weekly downloads. As such, nextjs-themes popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that nextjs-themes demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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