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Build a React theme switcher app with styled-components

Theme Switching using Styled Components in ReactJs. :writing_hand:

This is the code example for my article on Build a React theme switcher app with styled-components for LogRocket. Here is the live demo.

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Summary

Using the ThemeProvider, a wrapper component available in styled-components, we can quickly set up multiple custom themes in React and switch between them with ease.

To demonstrate this, we’ll build a React app featuring quotes from popular characters from Game of Thrones. This tutorial will show how to create styled components and multiple themes for the app, change the theme with a click of a button, and save the theme in local storage.

Breakdown:

  • Why use styled-components for theme switching?
  • Prerequisites
  • Setting up the React app
  • Creating the styled components
  • Creating multiple themes
  • Adding themes with ThemeProvider
  • Switching themes
  • Saving the theme in local storage

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short clip of the theme switchhing app