JS is the primary source of theme variables for Grafana. Theme definitions are located in `packages/grafana-ui/src/themes` directory.
## Overview
#### Themes are implemented in pure js.
**Themes are implemented in Typescript.** That's because our goal is to share variables between Grafana Typescript code and SASS files. Theme definitions are located in `packages/grafana-ui/src/themes/[default|dark|light].ts` files. `default.ts` file holds common variables like typography and spacing definitions, while `[light|dark].ts` primarily specify colors used in themes.
That's because our goal is to share variables between Grafana app and SASS files.
#### Themes are available to React components via `ThemeContext`
ThemeContext is available via `import { ThemeContext } from '@grafana/ui';`
All stories are wrapped with `ThemeContext.Provider` using global decorator. To render `Themeable` component that's not wrapped by `withTheme` HOC you either create a new component in your story:
There should be very few cases where theme would be used in Angular context. For this purpise there is a function available that retrieves current theme: `import { getCurrentTheme } from app/core/utils/ConfigProvider`
There should be very few cases where theme would be used in Angular context. For this purpose there is a function available that retrieves current theme: `import { getCurrentTheme } from app/core/utils/ConfigProvider`. Angular components should be migrated to React, or if that's not possible at the moment, styled using SASS.
## Limitations
- #### Hot updates
Changes in JS theme files _are not subject of hot updates_ during development. This applies to styles that comes from SASS files (which means 100% until we introduce css in js approach). This is a consequence of the fact that `getThemeVariable` util is executed during webpack pipeline.
- #### You must ensure ThemeContext provider is available in a React tree
## FAQ
### How can I modify SASS variable files?
> For the following to apply you need to run `yarn dev` task.
`[_variables|_variables.dark|_variables.light].generated.scss` files are the ones that are referenced in the main SASS files for SASS variables to be available. **These files are automatically generated and should never be modified by hand!**.
#### If you need to modify *SASS variable value* you need to modify corresponding Typescript file that is a source of the variables:
### You must ensure ThemeContext provider is available in a React tree
By default all react2angular directives have `ThemeContext.Provider` ensured. But, there are cases where we create another React tree via `ReactDOM.render`. This happens in case of graph legend rendering and `ReactContainer` directive. In such cases theme consumption will fail. To make sure theme context is available in such cases, you need to wrap your rendered component with ThemeContext.Provider using `provideTheme` function: