sp-theme

Overview

API

Changelog

Description

sp-theme applies a Spectrum theme by using CSS custom properties to set default sizes & colors for all of the components in its scope. The Spectrum design system provides four color themes (lightest, light, dark, and darkest) and two different scales (medium and large) to support desktop & mobile UI.

Usage

yarn add @spectrum-web-components/theme

Quick start

import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/sp-theme.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/src/themes.js';

The above import statements do two things: the first will get you started using the <sp-theme> wrapper element, and the second includes all four (4) color options (lightest, light, dark, and darkest) and both (2) scale options (medium and large) for the Spectrum Classic theme. Having all of these options available together is the easiest way to get a handle on the theming possibilities offered by the package and empowers you to prototype and test various deliveries of your application. However, reserving the download and parse time for all of the variants may not be required for all applications. See the "Advanced usage" section below for instructions on tuning the performance of an application that leverages this package.

Below are more ways to import the different scale and color options individually, in case you didn't want to import all of them as we did above. You'll use these statements in combination with the side effectful registration import statement import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/sp-theme.js'.

The various Classic themes can be imported en masse, as in the example above:

import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/src/themes.js';

The various Spectrum Express themes can also be imported en masse:

import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/src/express/themes.js';

Or you can import the themes and scales individually:

import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/theme-darkest.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/theme-dark.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/theme-light.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/theme-lightest.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/scale-medium.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/scale-large.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/express/theme-darkest.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/express/theme-dark.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/express/theme-light.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/express/theme-lightest.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/express/scale-medium.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/express/scale-large.js';

When looking to leverage the Theme base class as a type and/or for extension purposes, do so via:

import { Theme } from '@spectrum-web-components/theme';

What it's doing

Visually, all Spectrum Web Components are an expression of the design tokens specified by Spectrum, Adobe's design system. On the web, these tokens are made available as CSS Custom Properties. Using sp-theme as a parent element for your components ensures that those CSS Custom Properties can be leveraged by the elements within your application. This ensures consistent delivery of not only the color and scale you've specified in your particular instance, but for all the other color, scale, and content direction specifications across Spectrum.

Additionally, the sp-theme element manages the content direction applied to the elements in its DOM scope. By default, an sp-theme element resolves its initial content direction from the value specified by its first sp-theme or document ancestor; otherwise, it uses the value dir="ltr" if a content direction isn't present in those elements. When a value for dir is manually supplied to sp-theme, the default value is overridden. In all cases, though, sp-theme manages the dir value of its SpectrumElement descendents, unless another sp-theme element is placed into its scope and overrides that management.

To make the above concepts a little more concrete, take a look at the table below. Try selecting another color in the picker, and notice how that changes the values of the colors. The token names for the variables persist, but the RGB values under the hood change! Considering that sp-theme also manages all the other theme and size options, sp-theme reveals itself to be a pretty powerful component.

When you're ready to look into more advanced usage of the components and themes in your application, there are vanilla CSS implementations of these tokens available in the @spectrum-web-components/styles package.

Example

An <sp-theme> element expects a value for each of its color and scale attributes to be provided on the element. While not required, you can also use the system attribute to specify whether the theme you're using is Spectrum Classic (the default), Spectrum 2 (upcoming release) or Spectrum Express.

<sp-theme
    system="spectrum"
    color="light"
    scale="medium"
    style="background-color: var(--spectrum-gray-100)"
>
    <sp-button onclick="spAlert(this, 'Themed <sp-button> clicked!')">
        Click me!
    </sp-button>
</sp-theme>

Advanced usage

Once you've moved beyond the prototype phase of an application, it is likely that you will only use one combination of color and scale in your application, and even if not, you'll likely benefit from lazily loading the variants you don't leverage by default. For single combination applications, or to power a default theme, the following imports can be used to ensure only the code your application requires is loaded:

Classic

/**
 * Power a site using
 *
 * <sp-theme
 *      system="spectrum"
 *      color="darkest"
 *      scale="large"
 * >
 **/
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/theme-darkest.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/scale-large.js';

import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/sp-theme.js';

Express

/**
 * Power a site using
 *
 * <sp-theme
 *      system="express"
 *      color="light"
 *      scale="medium"
 * >
 **/
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/express/theme-light.js';
import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/express/scale-medium.js';

import '@spectrum-web-components/theme/sp-theme.js';

When subsequent theme variants are needed, you can ensure those are lazily loaded by leveraging dynamic imports via something like:

const themeElement = document.querySelector('sp-theme');

const updateTheme = async (color, scale) => {
    Promise.all([
        import(`@spectrum-web-components/theme/theme-${color}.js`),
        import(`@spectrum-web-components/theme/scale-${scale}.js`),
    ]).then(() => {
        themeElement.color = color;
        themeElement.scale = scale;
    });
};

updateTheme('light', 'medium');

When bundling your application, be sure to consult the documentation of your bundler for the correct way to ensure proper packaging of the programatic dependency graph that this will create.

Light theme

<style type="text/css">
    #example {
        max-width: 500px;
        padding: 3em;
        background-color: var(--spectrum-gray-100);
        color: var(--spectrum-gray-800);
    }

    #buttons {
        margin-top: 2em;
    }
</style>
<sp-theme system="express" color="light" scale="medium">
    <hzn-app-stuff></hzn-app-stuff>
</sp-theme>

<express-app>
    <hzn-app-stuff></hzn-app-stuff>
</express-app>

Dark theme

<style type="text/css">
    #example {
        max-width: 500px;
        padding: 3em;
        background-color: var(--spectrum-gray-100);
        color: var(--spectrum-gray-800);
    }

    #buttons {
        margin-top: 2em;
    }
</style>
<sp-theme system="express" color="dark" scale="large">
    <hzn-app-stuff></hzn-app-stuff>
</sp-theme>

<express-app>
    <hzn-app-stuff></hzn-app-stuff>
</express-app>

Large scale

The large scale of <sp-theme> will switch to using Spectrum's larger mobile Platform Scale

<style type="text/css">
    #example {
        max-width: 500px;
        padding: 1em;
        background-color: var(--spectrum-gray-100);
        color: var(--spectrum-gray-800);
    }

    #buttons {
        margin-top: 2em;
    }
</style>
<sp-theme color="darkest" scale="large">
    <div id="example">
        <div>
            <sp-slider
                value="5"
                step="1"
                min="1"
                max="11"
                label="Volume"
                id="volume-slider"
            ></sp-slider>
        </div>
        <div><sp-switch>Overdrive</sp-switch></div>
        <sp-button-group id="buttons">
            <sp-button variant="primary">Cancel</sp-button>
            <sp-button variant="accent">Continue</sp-button>
        </sp-button-group>
    </div>
</sp-theme>

Embedding themes

There are a few cases where it is necessary to embed one theme within another. For example, if you have an application that is using a dark theme with a left to right text direction that is previewing or editing content that will be displayed in a light theme with a right to left text direction.

<style type="text/css">
    #outer {
        max-width: 500px;
        padding: 1em;
        background-color: var(--spectrum-gray-100);
        color: var(--spectrum-gray-800);
    }

    #inner {
        margin-top: 2em;
        padding: 1em;
        background-color: var(--spectrum-gray-100);
        color: var(--spectrum-gray-800);
    }

    #buttons {
        margin-top: 2em;
    }
</style>
<sp-theme color="dark" dir="ltr">
    <div id="outer">
        <div>
            <sp-slider
                value="5"
                step="1"
                min="1"
                max="11"
                label="Volume"
                id="volume-slider"
            ></sp-slider>
        </div>
        <div><sp-switch>Overdrive</sp-switch></div>
        <sp-button-group id="buttons">
            <sp-button variant="primary">Cancel</sp-button>
            <sp-button variant="accent">Continue</sp-button>
        </sp-button-group>
        <sp-theme color="light" dir="rtl">
            <div id="inner">
                <div>
                    <sp-slider
                        value="5"
                        step="1"
                        min="1"
                        max="11"
                        label="Volume"
                        id="volume-slider"
                    ></sp-slider>
                </div>
                <div><sp-switch>Overdrive</sp-switch></div>
                <sp-button-group id="buttons">
                    <sp-button variant="primary">Cancel</sp-button>
                    <sp-button variant="accent">Continue</sp-button>
                </sp-button-group>
            </div>
        </sp-theme>
    </div>
</sp-theme>

Language Context

The <sp-theme> element provides a language context for its descendents in the DOM. Descendents can resolve this context by dispatching an sp-language-context DOM event and supplying a callback(lang: string) => void method in the detail entry of the Custom Event. These callbacks will be reactively envoked when the lang attribute on the <sp-theme> element is updated. This way, you can control the resolved language in <sp-number-field>, <sp-slider>, and other elements in one centralized place.

System Context (private Beta API - subject to changes)

The element provides a "system" context to its descendants in the DOM. This context indicates the Spectrum design system variant currently in use (e.g., 'spectrum', 'express', or 'spectrum-two').

Consuming the System Context in Components

Components can consume the system context by using the SystemResolutionController. This controller encapsulates the logic for resolving the system context, allowing it to be integrated into any component in few steps.

Steps to Consume the System Context:

Import the SystemResolutionController and the necessary types:

import {
    SystemResolutionController,
    systemResolverUpdatedSymbol,
} from './SystemResolutionController.js';
import type { SystemVariant } from '@spectrum-web-components/theme';

Instantiate the SystemResolutionController:

In your component class, create an instance of SystemResolutionController, passing this as the host element.

export class MyComponent extends LitElement {
    private systemResolver = new SystemResolutionController(this);

    // Rest of your component code...
}

Respond to system context changes:

Override the update lifecycle method to detect changes in the system context using the systemResolverUpdatedSymbol.

protected update(changes: Map<PropertyKey, unknown>): void {
  super.update(changes);
  if (changes.has(systemResolverUpdatedSymbol)) {
    this.handleSystemChange();
  }
}

Implement the handler for system changes:

Create a method that will be called whenever the system context changes. Use this.systemResolver.system to access the current system variant.

private handleSystemChange(): void {
  const currentSystem: SystemVariant = this.systemResolver.system;
  // Implement logic based on the current system variant.
  // For example, update styles, states or re-render parts of the component.
}

Use the system context in other parts of your component logic and/or template:

You can now use this.systemResolver.system anywhere in your component to adjust behavior or rendering based on the system variant.

render() {
  return html`
    <div>
      <!-- Use the system context in your rendering logic -->
      Current system variant: ${this.systemResolver.system}
    </div>
  `;
}

Slots

Name

Description

default slot

Content on which to apply the CSS Custom Properties defined by the current theme configuration

Patch Changes

Updated dependencies [3cca7ea]:
- @spectrum-web-components/styles@1.4.0
- @spectrum-web-components/base@1.4.0

1.3.0

Patch Changes

Updated dependencies []:
- @spectrum-web-components/base@1.3.0
- @spectrum-web-components/styles@1.3.0

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See Conventional Commits for commit guidelines.

1.2.0 (2025-02-27)

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1.1.2 (2025-02-12)

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1.1.1 (2025-01-29)

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1.1.0 (2025-01-29)

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1.0.3 (2024-12-09)

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1.0.1 (2024-11-11)

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1.0.0 (2024-10-31)

BREAKING CHANGES

remove 'theme' attribute from sp-theme (#4765)

0.49.0 (2024-10-15)

Features

add static-color to replace static (#4808) (43cf086)

0.48.1 (2024-10-01)

Bug Fixes

add file extension to Theme imports and respective eslint rule (#4771) (a2b6bea)

0.48.0 (2024-09-17)

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0.47.2 (2024-09-03)

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0.47.1 (2024-08-27)

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0.47.0 (2024-08-20)

Features

breadcrumbs: add Breadcrumbs component (#4578) (acd4b5e)

0.46.0 (2024-08-08)

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0.45.0 (2024-07-30)

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0.44.0 (2024-07-15)

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0.43.0 (2024-06-11)

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0.42.5 (2024-05-24)

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0.42.4 (2024-05-14)

Bug Fixes

styles,theme: add S2 tokens and theme (#4241) (a29e4a2), closes #4232 #4228
theme: deprecate theme property for system (#4230) (ac26168)

0.42.3 (2024-05-01)

Bug Fixes

theme: deprecate theme property for system (#4230) (ac26168)

0.42.2 (2024-04-03)

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0.42.1 (2024-04-02)

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0.42.0 (2024-03-19)

Bug Fixes

styles, theme: surface exports that omit Spectrum Vars proactively (#4142) (5b524c1)
theme: deprecate lightest and darkest color stops (#4179) (0c01a66)

0.41.2 (2024-03-05)

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0.41.1 (2024-02-22)

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0.41.0 (2024-02-13)

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0.40.5 (2024-02-05)

Bug Fixes

theme: expose version property (#3978) (d42bb71)
theme: include custom Spectrum color tokens in Express color tokens (370a1f1)

0.40.4 (2024-01-29)

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0.40.3 (2024-01-11)

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0.40.2 (2023-12-18)

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0.40.1 (2023-12-05)

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0.40.0 (2023-11-16)

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0.39.4 (2023-11-02)

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0.39.3 (2023-10-18)

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0.39.2 (2023-10-13)

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0.39.1 (2023-10-06)

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0.39.0 (2023-09-25)

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0.38.0 (2023-09-05)

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0.37.0 (2023-08-18)

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0.36.0 (2023-08-18)

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0.35.0 (2023-07-31)

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0.34.0 (2023-07-11)

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0.33.2 (2023-06-14)

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0.33.0 (2023-06-08)

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0.32.0 (2023-06-01)

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0.31.0 (2023-05-17)

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0.30.0 (2023-05-03)

Bug Fixes

theme: stop language resolution propagation and demo using local languages (6b81391)

Features

styles: update typography to leverage Core Tokens (2f86560)

0.15.0 (2023-04-24)

Features

styles: update typography to leverage Core Tokens (2f86560)

0.14.14 (2023-04-05)

Bug Fixes

theme: stop language resolution propagation and demo using local languages (6b81391)

0.14.13 (2023-03-22)

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0.14.12 (2023-03-08)

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0.14.11 (2023-02-08)

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0.14.10 (2023-01-23)

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0.14.9 (2023-01-09)

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0.14.8 (2022-12-08)

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0.14.7 (2022-11-21)

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0.14.6 (2022-11-14)

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0.14.5 (2022-10-28)

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0.14.4 (2022-10-17)

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0.14.3 (2022-10-10)

Bug Fixes

convert the langage resolution workflow to a Reactive Controller (b7781db)
correct theme calculation for triggering warnings (5576329)

0.14.2 (2022-09-14)

Bug Fixes

add docs and address PR comments (568062a)

0.14.1 (2022-08-24)

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0.14.0 (2022-08-09)

Features

include all Dev Mode files in side effects (f70817c)

0.13.0 (2022-08-04)

Features

delivery dev mode messages in various packages (62370a1)

0.12.0 (2022-07-18)

Features

support Spectrum Token consumption and update Action Button to use them (743ab16)

0.11.3 (2022-06-29)

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0.11.2 (2022-06-07)

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0.11.1 (2022-05-12)

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0.11.0 (2022-04-21)

Bug Fixes

ensure all theme data is exported and listed for side effects (14efdc7)

Features

add support for Spectrum Express (12bfe99)

0.10.2 (2022-03-30)

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0.10.1 (2022-03-08)

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0.10.0 (2022-03-04)

Features

leverage latest Spectrum button API (9caf2f6)

0.9.4 (2022-02-22)

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0.9.3 (2022-01-26)

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0.9.2 (2022-01-07)

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0.9.1 (2021-12-13)

Bug Fixes

use local declaration of ShadowRoot.adoptedStyleSheets (43f1c63)

0.9.0 (2021-11-08)

Features

update lit-* dependencies, wip (377f3c8)

0.8.16 (2021-11-08)

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0.8.15 (2021-11-02)

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0.8.14 (2021-09-20)

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0.8.13 (2021-08-24)

Bug Fixes

correct @element jsDoc listing across library (c97a632)

0.8.12 (2021-08-03)

Bug Fixes

resolve "updateComplete" with a boolean like LitElement (2ebcd44)

0.8.11 (2021-07-22)

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0.8.10 (2021-07-01)

Bug Fixes

manage "lang" via context provided by "sp-theme" (b1e3457)

0.8.9 (2021-06-16)

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0.8.8 (2021-06-07)

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0.8.7 (2021-05-12)

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0.8.6 (2021-04-15)

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0.8.5 (2021-04-09)

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0.8.4 (2021-03-29)

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0.8.3 (2021-03-22)

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0.8.2 (2021-03-22)

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0.8.1 (2021-03-05)

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0.8.0 (2021-03-04)

Features

use latest exports specification (a7ecf4b)

0.7.4 (2021-02-11)

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0.7.3 (2021-02-02)

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0.7.2 (2021-01-28)

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0.7.1 (2021-01-21)

Bug Fixes

include the "types" entry in package.json files (b432f59)
use latest @spectrum-css/* versions (c35eb86)

0.7.0 (2021-01-13)

Bug Fixes

include the "types" entry in package.json files (b432f59)
use latest @spectrum-css/* versions (c35eb86)

0.6.3 (2020-10-12)

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0.6.2 (2020-10-12)

Bug Fixes

include default export in the "exports" fields (f32407d)

0.6.1 (2020-09-25)

Bug Fixes

update side effect listings (8160d3a)

0.6.0 (2020-08-31)

Features

allow dir management by sp-theme elements (2d10158)

0.5.2 (2020-07-24)

Bug Fixes

ensure browser understandable extensions (f4e59f7)

0.5.1 (2020-07-22)

Bug Fixes

theme: Use correct filename in exports field (d5da506)

0.5.0 (2020-07-17)

Features

leverage "exports" field in package.json (321abd7)

0.4.1 (2020-06-08)

Bug Fixes

theme: prevent property sets attribute set property stack overflow (28d8a07)
theme: support lazily loading theme fragments (3c3b634)

0.4.0 (2020-04-16)

Bug Fixes

ensure themes are registered before adopting (a7ffb84)

Features

rule: add Spectrum rule pattern and apply to docs (f4c52ae)

Performance Improvements

use "sideEffects" listing in package.json (7271614)

0.3.2 (2020-04-07)

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0.3.1 (2020-03-16)

Bug Fixes

theme: make typescript happy (a9aa377)
theme: track default theme values dynamically (a0c306c)

0.3.0 (2020-03-11)

Features

add "darkest" theme styles (fe38025)

0.2.0 (2020-01-30)

Bug Fixes

theme: include "large" scale (67577e7)

Features

rework overlays to use popper (e17d1bb)

0.1.1 (2020-01-06)

Bug Fixes

factor theme to use a single DOM node (7641228), closes #154
get theme element working in storybook (4c5e478)

0.2.3 (2019-12-02)

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0.2.2 (2019-11-27)

Bug Fixes

include "type" in package.json, generate custom-elements.json (1a8d716)

0.2.1 (2019-11-19)

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0.2.0 (2019-11-19)

Features

use @adobe/spectrum-css@2.15.1 (3918888)

0.1.4 (2019-10-14)

Performance Improvements

use imported TypeScript helpers instead of inlining them (cc2bd0a)

0.1.3 (2019-10-03)

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