nextjs-themes
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Unleash the Power of React Server Components! Use multiple themes on your site with confidence, without losing any advantages of React Server Components.
This is a sister package of react18-themes. Initially we targeted only Next.js and thus this package was named
nextjs-themes. However, we have expanded support forViteandRemixas well. And thus published a package with more generic name,react18-themes.
We recommend using react18-themes for latest updates. Though this package is also maintained with specific focus on Next.js, all the functionality of this package along with extended support for other build tools is available in react18-themes
🤟 👉 Unleash the Power of React 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!
import from nextjs-themes/client/component)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 "nextjs-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.
app router (Server Components)If your app is mostly serving static content, you do not want the overhead of SSR. Use
NextJsSSGThemeSwitcherin this case. When using this approach, you need to use CSS general sibling Combinator (~) to make sure your themed CSS is properly applied. See (HTML & CSS)[#html--css].
Update your app/layout.jsx to add ThemeSwitcher from nextjs-themes, and NextJsSSGThemeSwitcher from nextjs-themes/server. NextJsSSGThemeSwitcher is required to avoid flash of un-themed content on reload.
// app/layout.jsx
import { ThemeSwitcher } from "nextjs-themes";
import { NextJsSSGThemeSwitcher } from "nextjs-themes/server/nextjs";
export default function Layout({ children }) {
return (
<html lang="en">
<head />
<body>
/** use NextJsSSGThemeSwitcher as first element inside body */
<NextJsSSGThemeSwitcher />
<ThemeSwitcher />
{children}
</body>
</html>
);
}
Woohoo! You just added multiple theme modes and you can also use Server Component! Isn't that awesome!
If your app is serving dynamic content and you want to utilize SSR, continue using
ServerSideWrappercomponent to replacehtmltag inlayout.tsxfile.
Update your app/layout.jsx to add ThemeSwitcher and ServerSideWrapper from nextjs-themes. ServerSideWrapper is required to avoid flash of un-themed content on reload.
// app/layout.jsx
import { ThemeSwitcher } from "nextjs-themes";
import { ServerSideWrapper } from "nextjs-themes/server/nextjs";
export default function Layout({ children }) {
return (
<ServerSideWrapper tag="html" lang="en">
<head />
<body>
<ThemeSwitcher />
{children}
</body>
</ServerSideWrapper>
);
}
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, nextjs-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;
}
// v2 onwards when using NextJsSSGThemeSwitcher, we need to use CSS Combinators
[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.
For server side syncing, we need to use cookies and headers. This means that this component and its children can not be static. They will be rendered server side for each request. Thus, we are avoiding the wrapper. Now, only the NextJsSSGThemeSwitcher will be rendered server side for each request and rest of your app can be server statically.
Take care of the following while migrating to v2.
Next.js app router or server components other than updating cookies policy if needed.cookies in place of localStorage. (You might want to update cookies policy accordingly.)NextJsSSGThemeSwitcher in addition to ServerSideWrapper for Next.js. You no longer need to use a wrapper component which broke static generation and forced SSR.app router (Server Components)defaultDarkTheme is renamed to darkThemesetDefaultDarkTheme is renamed to setDarkThemedefaultLightTheme is renamed to lightThemesetDefaultLightTheme is renamed to setLightThemeWant handson course for getting started with Turborepo? Check out React and Next.js with TypeScript
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 885 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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