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Published inOct 2019
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ISBN-139781838641443
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Daniel Bugl
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Daniel Bugl is a CEO, Software Architect and Full Stack Developer for his company TouchLay, developing a platform for interactive presentations. He also consults large multinational enterprises on the development and integration of React frontends with various backend systems, including the integration of legacy systems, and helps out with the setup and development of such projects. He has a bachelor's degree in business informatics and a master's degree in data science.
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Implementing themes

After learning how to implement themes in a small example, we are now going to implement themes in our blog app, using React context and Hooks.

Defining the context

First, we have to define the context. Instead of defining it in the src/App.js file, in our blog app, we are going to create a separate file for the context. Having a separate file for contexts makes it easier to maintain them later on. Furthermore, we always know where to import the contexts from, because it is clear from the filename.

Let's start defining a theme context:

  1. Create a new src/contexts.js file.
  2. Then, we import React:
import React from 'react'
  1. Next, we define the ThemeContext. As before in our small example, we...
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Daniel Bugl

Daniel Bugl is a CEO, Software Architect and Full Stack Developer for his company TouchLay, developing a platform for interactive presentations. He also consults large multinational enterprises on the development and integration of React frontends with various backend systems, including the integration of legacy systems, and helps out with the setup and development of such projects. He has a bachelor's degree in business informatics and a master's degree in data science.
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