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Nextjs Darkmode

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Nextjs Darkmode is a versatile library crafted to fully utilize React 18 server components, ensuring a seamless dark mode experience in Next.js applications. Lightweight and efficient, it respects both user preferences and system settings through the prefers-color-scheme media query, and integrates effortlessly with React/Vite, Remix, and Next.js.

Motivation

The nextjs-themes library was initially created to achieve a similar functionality to next-themes with React Server Components. While effective, it felt bulky for those supporting only dark/light mode. Thus, nextjs-darkmode was developed to offer a minimal footprint while utilizing Next.js Server Components, avoiding any flash of unthemed content, and ensuring theme synchronization with the server.

For migration guide please refer Project Wiki

Features

  • ✅ Simple API to toggle between dark and light modes

  • ✅ Perfect dark mode with just 2 lines of code

  • ✅ Compatible with Tailwind CSS, StyledComponents, emotion, Material UI, ...

  • ✅ Secure by design - we support nonce when you want to apply Content Security Policy

  • ✅ Fully treeshakable (e.g., import from nextjs-darkmode/hooks)

  • ✅ Full TypeScript support

  • ✅ Utilizes React 18 Server components

  • ✅ Compatible with all React 18 build systems/tools/frameworks

  • ✅ System setting with prefers-color-scheme

  • ✅ Supports Next.js 13 & 14 appDir

  • ✅ No flash on load (supports SSG, SSR, ISG, and Server Components)

  • ✅ Sync theme across tabs and windows

  • ✅ Apply custom transitions when changing themes

  • ✅ Manipulate theme via the useMode hook

  • ✅ Comprehensive documentation with Typedoc

Feel free to request new features, discuss, or report bugs.

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Getting Started

Installation

$ pnpm add nextjs-darkmode

or

$ npm install nextjs-darkmode

or

$ yarn add nextjs-darkmode

Import Styles

PLease make sure you set "moduleResolution" to "Bundler", "Node16" or "NodeNext" in your tsconfig file for export field in package.json to work properly. (Ref)[https://stackoverflow.com/a/74462490/23175171]

You may need to import styles from nextjs-darkmode/dist/index.css depending on your bundler configuration.

Import styles globally or within layout component.

/* globals.css */
@import "nextjs-darkmode/css";

// layout.tsx
import "nextjs-darkmode/css";

Lite Version

For a lighter version, use nextjs-darkmode-lite:

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$ pnpm add nextjs-darkmode-lite

or

$ npm install nextjs-darkmode-lite

or

$ yarn add nextjs-darkmode-lite

You need r18gs as a peer-dependency.

Usage

Please explore examples and packages/shared-ui for more working examples. (updates coming soon...)

SPA (e.g., Vite, CRA) and Next.js pages directory

Modify _app to add dark mode support:

import { Core } from "nextjs-darkmode"; // for better tree-shaking
import { Switch } from "nextjs-darkmode/switch";

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  return (
    <>
      <Core />
      <header>
        <Switch />
      </header>
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </>
  );
}

export default MyApp;

⚡🎉Boom! Just a couple of lines and your dark mode is ready, complete with a color switch for user preferences. Check out examples for advanced usage.

For vite or any other build tool, find a similar root component, e.g., <App /> in CRA and vite.

With Next.js app router

Update app/layout.jsx to add Core component.

// app/layout.jsx
import { Core } from "nextjs-darkmode"; // for better tree-shaking

export default function Layout({ children }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <head />
      <body>
        <Core />
        {children}
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Switch

An elegant color switch to toggle color schemes:

<Switch />

HTML & CSS

Fully support dark mode, including system preference with prefers-color-scheme. The dark/light mode is synced between tabs and modifies the className and data-attributes on the html elemnt.

:root {
  --background: white;
  --foreground: black;
}

.dark {
  --background: black;
  --foreground: white;
}

/* or */

[data-rm="dark"] {...}

Using the data-attributes

data-attributes are very helpful when you want to customize styles in a CSS module file (styles.module.css)

data-rm -> Resolved Mode

data-m -> User's preference

data-sm -> System preference

Content Security Policy

If you are using CSP rules for CSS files, you can pass nonce argument to the Core component. If nonce is not supplied transition styles will not be applied. This may allow patched transitions throught the page in some cases.

<Core nonce={yourNonce} t="transition: all .5s" />

Images

Show different images based on the current theme:

import Image from "next/image";
import { useMode } from "nextjs-darkmode/hooks";

function ThemedImage() {
  const { resolvedMode } = useMode();
  let src;

  switch (resolvedMode) {
    case "light":
      src = "/light-mode-image.png";
      break;
    case "dark":
      src = "/dark-mode-image.png";
      break;
    default:
      src = "/default-image.png";
      break;
  }

  return <Image src={src} alt="Themed Image" />;
}

useMode

The useMode hook provides mode information:

import { useMode } from "nextjs-darkmode";

const ThemeChanger = () => {
  const { resolvedMode, setMode } = useMode();

  return (
    <div>
      The current resolved mode is: {resolvedMode}
      <button onClick={() => setMode("light")}>Light Mode</button>
      <button onClick={() => setMode("dark")}>Dark Mode</button>
    </div>
  );
};

useMode hook returns the following object:

export interface UseModeInterface {
  mode: ColorSchemePreference;
  systemMode: ResolvedScheme;
  resolvedMode: ResolvedScheme;
  setMode: (mode: ColorSchemePreference) => void;
}

Force per page mode

Apply appropriate class names and data attributes to force a mode for the page:

export default function Page() {
  return <div className="dark ndm-scoped data-rm='dark'">...</div>;
}

With Styled Components and any CSS-in-JS

Next Themes works with any library. For example, with Styled Components:

// pages/_app.js
import { createGlobalStyle } from "styled-components";
import { Core } from "nextjs-darkmode";

// Your theming variables
const GlobalStyle = createGlobalStyle`
  :root {
    --fg: #000;
    --bg: #fff;
  }

  [data-rm="dark"] {
    --fg: #fff;
    --bg: #000;
  }
`;

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  return (
    <>
      <GlobalStyle />
      <Core />
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </>
  );
}

With Tailwind

In tailwind.config.js, set the dark mode property to class:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  darkMode: "class",
};

Now you can use dark-mode specific classes:

<h1 className="text-black dark:text-white">

Performance

nextjs-darkmode is designed to be fully tree-shakable, including only the code you use. For instance, if you only use the useMode hook, the rest of the library's code will be removed during the build process.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Check out the Contributing Guide for more details.

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