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Add dark mode to your site with this short CSS trick

Gábor Soós on September 10, 2019

Most applications nowadays have dark mode: your command line, your IDE, your browser, etc. Why would your site be any different? Your website can a...

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Kyle Griffin • Sep 11 '19 • Edited

What's more likely to happen in this case is that you'll have color set on specific parts of the site for different things. So the better thing to do is to use CSS variables.

Jaime Rios • Sep 11 '19

Simple but effective. Thanks for sharing

Just to enrich the conversation I want to add that another consideration is that if you are using styled-components a dark theme might be accomplished with something in a similar way, for example:

const prefersDark = window.matchMedia && window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)').matches

const lightTheme = {
    color: 'black',
    backgroundColor: 'white',
};

const darkTheme = {
    color: 'white',
    backgroundColor: 'black',
};

// ...

render() {
    return(
        <ThemeProvider theme={prefersDark ? darkTheme : lightTheme} >
        </ThemeProvider>
    );
}