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Building a Multi-Theme System with CSS Custom Properties

GOTRS 0.6.2 introduced a pluggable multi-theme system with four distinct themes, each supporting light and dark modes. But this wasn’t just about aesthetics. The Problem Many users find web applications physically uncomfortable or outright unusable due to their visual presentation. The …

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Implementing Dark Mode Properly with Design Tokens

Adding dark mode to GOTRS exposed every hardcoded colour in our templates. Here’s what we learned. The Problem Our first attempt was simple: detect dark mode preference, swap some background colours. This worked until we noticed inputs still had white backgrounds. Badges used hardcoded …

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