Viva Magenta is not the newest member of the Viva Product family. Every year the Pantone Color Institute announces the colour for the next year around the same time. Next year’s colour will be a colour named Viva Magenta. Official HEX colour code #BE3455.
During last weekend I already teased a web part named ‘Panthema’. I was a bit surprised by the interest in this helpful tool for developer, consultant and everyone who has to manage themes in SharePoint on Office 365. I also think it helps a lot in debugging the colours used.
It has been a while since I release the last version of my spfx-uifabric-themes npm package to make it easier to handle theming in SPFx projects.
New Release spfx-uifabric-themes
I’m proud to present now a new version that supports theming through CSS variables instead of SASS variables. If you hear this the first time, let me give you a short introduction on that.
A while back I wrote about on how to use the theme slots in the SPFx projects through SASS. It allows you to write web parts that reflect the default theme colours of a site. Instead, using fixed colour values, you can use variables in the CSS code of your artefacts.
To make the overall process faster I recently released and NPM packages including all the SASS colours plus some extras.
DEPPRECATED This blog post is outdated please implement the new version of this feature see: How to make CSS Variables work in SPFx web parts.
While Waldek Mastykarz and I were working on a new project, we ask ourselves what it needs to create the web part corresponding to the current site theme colors.
After a small research, we found the solution for that.
