Create a Theme Package
As stated previously, rather than using the default starter theme that we selected during the setup process (i.e.
@frontity/mars-theme) we are instead going to develop a custom theme from scratch. To do this we need to create a new package for our theme's code. As it's our first ever theme let's call our theme "my-first-theme".NOTE: Before continuing you may need to stop the dev server process that we ran previously with CONTROL+C.
To create a package run the following command in the terminal:
> npx frontity create-package my-first-theme
You will be prompted to specify the namespace to use. Since you are creating a theme you can use the default
theme, so you can just press Enter at this point.
Creating a package
When the process is complete you will have a new directory called
/packages/my-first-theme. This is where we will be doing most of our work to build the theme.
Structure of a newly created package
The first thing we'll do is to remove
@frontity/mars-theme from our settings and replace it with my-first-theme.Remove the following from the file
frontity.settings.js:// File: /frontity.settings.js
{
name: "@frontity/mars-theme",
state: {
theme: {
menu: [
["Home", "/"],
["Nature", "/category/nature/"],
["Travel", "/category/travel/"],
["Japan", "/tag/japan/"],
["About Us", "/about-us/"]
],
featured: {
showOnList: false,
showOnPost: false
}
}
}
},
And replace it with:
// File: /frontity.settings.js
{
name: "my-first-theme"
},
We've now told Frontity to use our new theme rather than "mars-theme". Save the file and then run this command again:
> npx frontity dev
If you see this in your browser then everything is working. Hooray! 🙌
Frontity in the browser
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