Version 3 Short Notes:
Version 3.0 brings minor API changes along with major performance improvements and fixes. We have minimized changes to existing APIs.Note: react18-themes will now be maintained as nextjs-themes-lite
, as server-specific APIs are no longer needed.
🤟 👉 Unleash the Power of React Server Components
- ✅ Perfect dark mode in 2 lines of code
- ✅ Fully Treeshakable (
import from nextjs-themes-lite/client/component
) - ✅ Full TypeScript Support
- ✅ Unleash the full power of React 18 Server components
Exampand following to see more features.
This project was inspired by next-themes. Unlike next-themes, nextjs-themes-lite
doesn't require wrapping everything in a provider, allowing you to take full advantage of React 18 Server Components. Additionally, it offers more features and control over your app's theming.
- ✅ Perfect dark mode in 2 lines of code
- ✅ Fully Treeshakable (
import from nextjs-themes-lite/client/component
) - ✅ Designed for excellence
- ✅ Full TypeScript Support
- ✅ Unleash the full power of React 18 Server components
- ✅ System setting with prefers-color-scheme
- ✅ Themed browser UI with color-scheme
- ✅ Support for Next.js 13 & Next.js 14
appDir
- ✅ No flash on load (for all - SSG, SSR, ISG, Server Components)
- ✅ Sync theme across tabs and windows
- ✅ Disable flashing when changing themes
- ✅ Force pages to specific themes
- ✅ Class and data attribute selector
- ✅ Manipulate theme via
useTheme
hook - ✅ Documented with Typedoc (Docs)
- ✅ Use combinations of [data-th=""] and [data-color-scheme=""] for dark/light variants of themes
- ✅ Use [data-csp=""] to style based on colorSchemePreference.
Check out the live example.
See Getting Started
Want Lite Version? In case you are using
r18gs
in your project, you may use lite version which requiresr18gs
as a peerDependency.
Refer to the migration guide.
Want a hands-on course for getting started with Turborepo? Check out React and Next.js with TypeScript
Do I need to use CSS variables with this library?
No. You can hard code values for every class:
.my-class {
color: #555;
}
[data-theme="dark"] .my-class {
color: white;
}
Why is resolvedTheme
and resolvedColorScheme
necessary?
To reflect the System theme preference and forced theme/colorScheme pages in your UI. For instance, buttons or dropdowns indicating the current colorScheme should say "system" when the System colorScheme preference is active.
resolvedTheme
is useful for modifying behavior or styles at runtime:
const { resolvedTheme, resolvedColorScheme } = useTheme();
const background = getBackground(resolvedTheme);
<div style={{ color: resolvedColorScheme === 'dark' ? white : black, background }}>
Without resolvedTheme
, you would only know the theme is "system", not what it resolved to.
This library is licensed under the MPL-2.0 open-source license.
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with 💖 by Mayank Kumar Chaudhari