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Usecontext Theme Toggling

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Updated: 8 Jun 2021
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This is a simple example repository demonstrating one way to toggle React themes using the useContext hook.

Overview

This project provides a seamless way to implement dark and light mode toggling in a React application using the power of hooks. By leveraging React’s useContext and useState hooks, developers can easily switch between themes and create a more personalized user experience. The implementation is done using TypeScript, though it can easily be adapted to JavaScript by removing type definitions.

At the heart of this project is the ThemeProvider component, which establishes the context for theme management. It controls the state of the current theme and provides the functionality to toggle it. The integration with other components is straightforward, allowing any part of the application to easily access theme settings.

Features

  • Theme Management: Centralized control of theme state (light/dark) through a dedicated ThemeProvider component, ensuring cohesion in styling across the app.
  • Custom Context: Utilizes React.createContext to create a ThemeContext, which holds the theme and a function to toggle it, facilitating easy access throughout the component tree.
  • Dynamic Styling: Automatically adjusts the document body’s color and background color based on the current theme, enhancing user visibility and comfort.
  • Seamless Integration: Designed to wrap the entire app or specific components requiring theme access, ensuring only necessary elements are affected.
  • User Interaction: A simple button in the App component allows users to toggle between light and dark modes with visually clear prompts.
  • TypeScript Compactness: Though written in TypeScript, the project’s structure is straightforward enough for quick adaptation to JavaScript, making it accessible to a wider audience.
  • Reusable Hook Logic: By abstracting theme logic into a context, other developers can reuse this functionality without reinventing the wheel for theme management.