next-themes VS react-icons

Next themes is used for themes switching

Shadcn UI supports dark mode for Next.js and Vite applications. For Next.js applications, Shadcn UI uses next-themes for the dark mode toggling functionality. When a user toggles between light and dark mode, the application switches between the light and dark theme tokens.

Let’s start with Next.js. We’ll use the next-themes package, which allows us to handle dark mode very easily without worrying about blocking page rendering to check user preferences.

"use client"; import React from "react"; import { ThemeProvider as NextThemesProvider } from "next-themes"; import { ThemeProviderProps } from "next-themes/dist/types"; // https://github.com/pacocoursey/next-themes/issues/152#issuecomment-1364280564 // needs to be called NextThemesProvider not ThemesProvider // not sure why export function Providers(props: ThemeProviderProps) { return ; }

Next themes

It is that simple. It has 74,528 weekly npm downloads and if it's good enough for @leeerob, it's good for me too. Get creative with your loading state and toggle button (or not && KISS). Check out their next-themes GH repo for more info.

also: https://github.com/pacocoursey/next-themes

i usually use https://github.com/pacocoursey/next-themes when dealing with themes, it doesnt flash

react-icons: Quickly integrate a variety of icons into your React app. Learn more

3. React Icons

We make use of react-icons to display the play and pause indications.

If you're using React, I can recommend this: https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons/

Links to external resources like Tailwind CSS, Google Fonts, and React Icons are provided, offering additional references for users.

react-icons - lib de icones para react.

As you can observe, here we again make use of style-components to create a container for the underlying icon. Also, we make use of the react-icons that provide a react wrapper for icons from various providers. Here we make use of the icons from the HeroIcons2 provider hence we import it from hi2 from the react-icons

As you can observe, the homepage consists of a few text elements and a navigation bar adorned with icons. To achieve this, I employed Material-UI (MUI) and React Icons. However, there's a noticeable hiccup - the page, ideally, should load swiftly, but instead, it's a bit sluggish. Even more concerning, it's transferring more data than anticipated.

Similar concept to react-icons (https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons/)in that regard.