simplified userdarkmode hook, added check if user prefers dark theme …

…based on OS settings

README.md

@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ npm test
 - React Router Dom
 - Downshift
 - Axios
-- React Paginate
+- react-paginate
+- react-media-hook
 - Mobile-first workflow
 
 ### What I learned
@@ -74,13 +75,9 @@ Making accessible UI components like custom select is difficult, we all know tha
 Also, this is my first React project with TypeScript. At the beginning it was tough, there was a lot of googling for sure, but on the second day I started to see the benefits that static typing provides.
 Since I'm still learning, I didn't want TypeScript to slow me down, so to make progress with the project I used 'any' in some places and moved on.
 
-To be added:
-
-1. Checking if user prefers dark mode based on OS settings.
-
 ### Useful resources
 
-- [Dark mode in react](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/04/dark-mode-react-apps-styled-components/) - This helped me implement my custom hook, but I had to adjust it for my app, since I'm not using ThemeProvider
+- [Dark mode in react](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-media-hook/) - great package that you can use to check whether user prefers dark or light mode based on their OS settings
 
 ## Author
 

package.json

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     "react": "^17.0.2",
     "react-dom": "^17.0.2",
     "react-icons": "^4.2.0",
+    "react-media-hook": "^0.4.9",
     "react-paginate": "^7.1.2",
     "react-router-dom": "^5.2.0",
     "react-scripts": "4.0.3",
@@ -37,12 +38,6 @@
   "resolutions": {
     "babel-loader": "8.1.0"
   },
-  "eslintConfig": {
-    "extends": [
-      "react-app",
-      "react-app/jest"
-    ]
-  },
   "lint-staged": {
     "src/**/*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx,json}": [
       "prettier --write"

src/hooks/UseDarkMode.ts

@@ -1,25 +1,22 @@
-import { useEffect, useState, useCallback } from 'react';
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import Theme from 'enums/Theme';
+import { useMediaPredicate } from 'react-media-hook';
 
 const useDarkMode = (): [string, () => void] => {
-  const [theme, setTheme] = useState<string>(Theme.Light);
-
-  const setMode = useCallback((mode: string) => {
-    window.localStorage.setItem('theme', mode);
-    setTheme(mode);
-  }, []);
+  const preferredTheme = useMediaPredicate('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)')
+    ? Theme.Dark
+    : Theme.Light;
+  const [theme, setTheme] = useState<string>(
+    localStorage.getItem('theme') || preferredTheme
+  );
 
   const themeToggler = (): void => {
-    theme === Theme.Light ? setMode(Theme.Dark) : setMode(Theme.Light);
+    theme === Theme.Light ? setTheme(Theme.Dark) : setTheme(Theme.Light);
   };
 
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const localTheme = window.localStorage.getItem('theme');
-    localTheme ? setTheme(localTheme) : setMode(Theme.Light);
-  }, [setMode]);
-
   useEffect(() => {
     document.body.className = theme;
+    window.localStorage.setItem('theme', theme);
   }, [theme]);
 
   return [theme, themeToggler];

yarn.lock

@@ -9528,6 +9528,11 @@ react-is@^17.0.1, react-is@^17.0.2:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-is/-/react-is-17.0.2.tgz#e691d4a8e9c789365655539ab372762b0efb54f0"
   integrity sha512-w2GsyukL62IJnlaff/nRegPQR94C/XXamvMWmSHRJ4y7Ts/4ocGRmTHvOs8PSE6pB3dWOrD/nueuU5sduBsQ4w==
 
+react-media-hook@^0.4.9:
+  version "0.4.9"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-media-hook/-/react-media-hook-0.4.9.tgz#7e57092f5800c53787dc9e912ad09e749dfb7bc7"
+  integrity sha512-FZr/2xA1+23vDJ1IZ794yLqMRRkBoCNOiJATdtTfB5GyVc5djf8FL2qEB/68pSkiNgHdHsmKknMSDr0sC4zBKQ==
+
 react-paginate@^7.1.2:
   version "7.1.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-paginate/-/react-paginate-7.1.2.tgz#3a94f36a774f9d2e82b877e30474a16088b00a4d"