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Why Dark Mode Should Not Be a Second CSS File
Published on July 23, 2026By DEV Community
Dark mode often begins with a simple idea: styles.css dark.css The light theme lives in one file. Dark-mode overrides live in another. For a small interface, this can appear perfectly reasonable. But as the application grows, the two files begin to behave like two separate implementations of the same UI. A component changes in styles.css. The corresponding rule in dark.css is forgotten. A new hover state is added. A focus ring is updated. A disabled style changes. Now every improvement to the de
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