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Theme creation mechanism #5

Closed avdeev closed 6 years ago

avdeev commented 6 years ago

Can we add here the possibility of creating themes?

mrdimidium commented 6 years ago

Is it about creating your own themes or switching existing ones?

avdeev commented 6 years ago

@nikolay-govorov Creating :)

It would be very convenient for the community. I think, this feature could be implemented in this CLI.

Here was a small discussion with @pepelsbey: https://github.com/shower/shower/issues/315

Now the creation of a theme is not a very convenient process. :( It is not automated, there are many things to guess. I tried to create my own theme and publish it in some shower awesome list, but it turned out that it's easier to break styles in the existing.

pepelsbey commented 6 years ago

@avdeev have you tried new updated themes? Vanilla CSS themes now have a bit simpler structure, less dependencies and better API. There’s still no proper template for that, but I’ll look into that next week.

Once we have a template it could be easily integrated into CLI tool.

avdeev commented 6 years ago

@pepelsbey Ok, thanks! I'll try.

It would be great to have a simple base supportable and updatable template for a new theme. And be able to simply switch/add a theme to the presentation. And publish a new theme to the registry/list. :)

mrdimidium commented 6 years ago

If we can define the template structure for the theme, we can add the --theme flag to the create command.

pepelsbey commented 6 years ago

You know, I tried it twice and couldn’t come up with something universal enough to start your own theme. I don’t want to infulence new themes anymore. That’s why I’d rather create a couple of new ones that are completely (or at least drastically) different from existing ones.

That’d give people an idea that they could basically create anything they want. I’m closing this issue for now. Let’s see how this alternative themes idea will go.