I was tired of next-themes being abandoned, so I built a drop-in replacement
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next-themes has 22 million weekly downloads. It hasn't had a release in over a year. There are 43 open issues and 16 unmerged PRs sitting there, including React 19 compatibility bugs that affect every project upgrading to Next.js 16. I got tired of waiting. So I built @wrksz/themes. The problem with next-themes When Next.js 16 and React 19 dropped, projects started hitting a wall. The most common issues: React 19 script warning - next-themes renders an inline inside a Client Compo