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Contributors Wanted: Night Mode/Themes on DEV

Ben Halpern on March 29, 2019

We recently made night mode an option for the dev.to interface. You can change to the them in /settings/misc. It's coming along nicely, but there ...
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Mohammadjavad Raadi

I absolutely love this platform, the dev.to community and the new dark theme. I've managed to run the project locally on an Arch Linux system and posted 2 issues so far. Just waiting for them to be approved.
PS: I found it a bit challenging to get the project running on Arch Linux and your documentations only cover installation on Debian based systems. Would you like me to add Arch Linux installation guide?

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Ben Halpern

Nice stuff!

Fixed sticky nav summary color to use custom property. #2240

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peiche commented on Mar 29, 2019

What type of PR is this?

  • [ ] Refactor
  • [ ] Feature
  • [X] Bug Fix
  • [ ] Documentation Update

Description

The sticky nav summary text is black, even in dark mode. This fix lets it use the custom property, with black text color as a fallback.

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Added to documentation?

  • [ ] docs.dev.to
  • [ ] readme
  • [X] no documentation needed
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Jaime Rios

Hey Ben, is there an article on how to run the project Locally?

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Ben Halpern

The Readme plus documentation should get you going!

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Sidak Singh Aulakh

Hey Ben, i am working on a night mode bug regarding in-article fluid comments and i want to preview the changes under local environment, is there a short-hand to achieve this instead of creating 0Auth tokens ?
Keep in mind that as long as i can test my css changes, i will be good to go.

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Sagar

Night mode looks pretty goodπŸ‘πŸ˜‡

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Andrew Healey • Edited

I might take this challenge on. I love how this project is run. Keep up the great work, Ben/rest of team! πŸ™Œ

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Periklis Gkolias

I am not proud of my design skills, so I cant help. But I would totally use a dark them when deployed

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Perlat Kociaj

Night mode is really great i tend to use only night/dark modes on everything where possible.
I have made some commits and will try to do more and more PRs .
Keep the good work Ben and the dev team.