use-light-switch

React hook for dark mode.

🌈 Features

• Typescript compatible
• 0 Dependencies
• Tiny ~0.4kB
• React Hooks

Installation

npm i use-light-switch

💻 Live Example

🤔 Motivation

There was no library that included typings 🤕

🛠 Compatibility & How it works

We leverage two browser features.

1. prefers-color-scheme media query.
2. matchMedia

The first one is a css media query that gives us the actual user preference. with window.matchMedia we can get it inside of javascript and even listen on changes, which makes it reactive.

Currently (06.01.2020) Safari, iOS, Firefox, Chrome & Android all support these features. Edge will as soon as it converts to chromium (15.01.2020) and IE of course is a lost cause.

🚀 Quickstart

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import { useModeSelector } from 'use-light-switch'
 
const App: React.FC = () => {
    const selected = useModeSelector({
        light: { color: 'green', name: 'Light' },
        dark: { color: 'red', name: 'Dark' },
        unset: { color: 'blue', name: 'Unset' },
    })
 
    return <div>
        <p>Try switching your dark mode in macOS or Windows</p>
        <div style={{
            padding: '1em 2em',
            backgroundColor: selected.color
        }}>
            {selected.name}
        </div>
    </div>
}
 
ReactDOM.render(<App />, window.document.getElementById('root'))

📒 Reference

useLightSwitch()

This is the most basic react hook. It returns one of 3 Modes

Example

import { Mode, useLightSwitch } from 'use-light-switch'
 
 
const Simple: React.FC = () => {
    const mode = useLightSwitch()
 
    if (mode === Mode.Dark) ...
 
    return ...
}

Mode

A simple enum. Possible values are:

• Mode.Light
• Mode.Dark
• Mode.Unset

Unset is returned when the user has no explicit preference. This is often the case with older or if it's simply unsupported.

useModeSelector(options)

This is a handy hook that reduces boilerplate. You pass values for the different modes and the hook will choose accordingly to what is currently selected. uses modeSelector under the hood.

Example

import { useModeSelector } from 'use-light-switch'
 
const WithSelector: React.FC = () => {
 
    const selected = useModeSelector({
        light: { color: 'green', name: 'Light' },
        dark: { color: 'red', name: 'Dark' },
        unset: { color: 'blue', name: 'Unset' },
    })
 
    return <div>
        <h3>Selector</h3>
        <div style={{
            padding: '1em 2em',
            backgroundColor: selected.color
        }}>
            {selected.name}
        </div>
    </div>
}

All parameters are optional and typesafe.

modeSelector(mode, options)

This is a simple functions that returns the matched option to the mode.

Example

import { Mode, modeSelector } from 'use-light-switch'
 
const selected = modeSelector(
    Mode.Dark,
    {
        light: { color: 'green', name: 'Light' },
        dark: { color: 'red', name: 'Dark' },
        unset: { color: 'blue', name: 'Unset' },
    }
)
 
selected.color  // red
selected.name  // Dark