---
title: "How to Create Light and Dark Mode Toggle in Next.js with Tailwind"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-create-light-and-dark-mode-toggle-in-next-js-with-tailwind-bpyrj5cor
source_url: https://javascript.plainenglish.io/how-to-create-light-and-dark-mode-toggle-in-next-js-with-tailwind-61e67518fd2d
type: article
source: "JSK"
author: "Avneesh Agarwal"
published: 2021-07-19T17:06:38.047Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["nextjs", "tailwind-css"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 13
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# How to Create Light and Dark Mode Toggle in Next.js with Tailwind

**[JSK](https://daily.dev/sources/jsk)** · [@avneesh0612](https://daily.dev/avneesh0612) · 1 min read · 13 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

How to create Light and Dark Mode Toggle in Next.js with Tailwind. We are going to learn how to create a dark mode toggle in Tailwind with localStorage. First, we are importing useState and useEffect from React. Then we are creating a useEffect hook that will toggle between dark and light mode.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@aj\_dev20** · 0 upvotes

> Wow Avneesh, this really helped out🔥🔥🔥

**@smitd21** · 0 upvotes

> Too good Avneesh 🔥🔥

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