Custom theme development in Fractal

fractal.js

'use strict';

const fractal = require('@frctl/fractal');

//.... other config items

fractal.set('plugins.web.theme', 'example-theme');

The theme needs to be NPM installed into your node_modules folder. If you are developing a theme locally, then the npm link command is your friend:

1. In your theme folder, make sure it has a package.json with a valid project name in it (e.g. example-theme)
2. Within your theme folder, run the command npm link
3. Then switch to your fractal project directory, and run npm link example-theme

You can then edit your theme locally and the changes will show up in your fractal web UI.

Also, when not developing, note that you can npm install from a github repo, it doesn't need to be published as an NPM module. You can do npm install http://github.com/username/repo and it will pull it in from there (provided there is a valid package.json file present).