I know that a majority of users probably prefer to use a dark theme for most applications, but I think having an option to enable a light theme would be greatly appreciated for those who do prefer it. Sometimes, I like to study Scrimba outside, and it gets really hard to see what’s happening on the text editor, even with my brightness turned all the way up. Other days, I use light mode for my productivity sessions and dark mode for leisure hours.
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I agree with you @imjacobtw ! Sometimes when the ambient light is quite bright, I’ve also felt the need for a Light theme option. I hope the Scrimba dev team implements it someday.
cc: @roku
Until then, I have found a partial workaround that you might want to try.
It is a Chrome extension called “Dark Reader”.
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Install the extension.
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Load Scrimba in your browser.
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Click the extension icon, toggle its dark mode to “ON”. Normally, switching this On/Off won’t help since Scrimba is already dark mode by default. Toggling between Dark and Light mode option of this extension won’t help much in our case either. Hence the next step…
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Now there’s a hack, or a somewhat hidden step, to “invert” the dark mode into light. In the extension dropdown, you will see tabbed menus: Filter | Site list | More. Go to More… and select Filter+ (Theme Generation Mode). This inverts the colors.
Usually, for this “Theme Generation Mode” option we would keep Dynamic selected, for the normal usage of the extension for getting dark modes on other sites. But specially for getting Light mode on Scrimba, this is what has worked for me.
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One thing to note is, this can invert the embedded browser preview and images too, which isn’t ideal, hence I call it a partial workaround. But this lets us get our code editor in light mode.
You can see the Before and After previews below.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
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For sure! I actually do prefer light mode sometimes too. We have discussed about allowing themes so students can pick their own theme (so dark or light), since we’re based of VS code. Not sure how complicated it will be though but it’s something we are aware. Just tackling some other bigger project at the moment and then circling back.
If we do have the capacity we’ll try to tackle the dark and light mode option first before any other theme feature. Though we tend to go overboard with things so maybe we’ll just end up doing the whole theme feature!
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Is there a way to track the progress on this (GitHub pr)?
We don’t have a PR for this I think as most of it is in our internal ticket for the dev team. Have always been on dark mode but recently I find that I’m working in light mode more often in the day. So I would like this feature too!
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