

However, differently from the tutorials, your button that sets the state will probably not be in the same file. I guess that this is the part that is the hardest to abstract from the tutorials, after all, you will need to find a way to change the state in the AppProvider level, in which you will pass the value theme for your ThemeProvider. This is one of these situations that having good design-ops and a nicely done design system that takes into account a dark version of components will come a long way (oManaging the view mode state in the AppProvider level
#Material ui dark mode switch how to
This type of setting will make the dark mode harder to manage for sure and these are the situations that you will need to spend more time figuring out how to adapt to. Sometimes the primary is the background and sometimes it is the font color. Normally the designs are done mixing and matching the color scheme. Honestly, in this process, the trickiest part is dealing with the primaries and secondaries for the dark theme. If you did that then you are almost there. This means that for your background you used something like and for your text color something like. Now, this will only work if you followed the Mui default theme structure. So inside your you will have something like this: You can only add a type value ‘dark’ and boom. The beauty of using Material UI is that you won’t necessarily have to manually set colors for dark theme. Now, let’s say you want to create a dark theme. Okay, so you have your ThemeProvider, your function, your separate palette files all beautifully created. When creating your palette specifically you can follow the data structure used by MUI for their default theme, so you keep a matching structure. I think that one main thing to keep in mind when you apply this in a real-life project is that all these parts, the createTheme() function, the values from your palette, spacing, breakpoints, and so on, will be separated files. I recommend watching this one for a nice overview (the theme stuff can be found from minute 24:07). There are also a few videos online that are super helpful. You can find more information on how to set a theme and create a ThemeProvider in Material UI’s official documentation.
#Material ui dark mode switch code
Also, as far as creating legacy code goes this one guarantees positive karma on your account, for sure. This is a good practice when working with Material UI as it allows you to manage your primaries, secondaries, information, and error colors in one unified file. That is a cool practice because it is something that can be used both for applying themes from different users/clients (if your company ever takes that road) and it can also be used for adding a dark theme. When I started working on adding a different view mode I was positively surprised that my colleagues had already set up a ThemeProvider and proper getTheme() function in the project when they first started using the Material UI library. Set a ThemeProvider and a getTheme() function from the beginning of the Here I will assume that you already have basic knowledge in React, React Context, Material Design, and Material UI.

However, I want to focus on my experience implementing it in a real, working commercial software, outlining some problems and ways my colleagues and I found to solve them. There are different tutorials online that explain how to set a dark mode theme using React Context and I really recommend you check them out if you haven’t yet. There are each time more users that prefer using the web in dark mode for more reading comfort and it is a feature that is slowly becoming an industry-standard such as responsiveness and others. I recently worked on setting up a dark mode in a project using React and Material UI and I wanted to share some of the things I learned while doing that.
