Theme plugin
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Hue for Yaak

A native Yaak theme plugin that turns one Huế-inspired token contract into three focused moods for everyday API work.

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Yaak running the Huế Mưa theme with a GraphQL request and JSON response side by side
Status
active
Last activity
4 Sep 2026
Verified host
Yaak 2026.6.0
Registry downloads
16
Snapshot
7 Sep 2026
License
MIT
  • typescript

Verified distribution

Published packages

3 themes · 16 downloads

PackageVersionDownloads
@crafts69guy/hue-theme0.3.016

Installed on Yaak 2026.6.0 formacOS; registry counts verified 7 Sep 2026.

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Yaak theme settings rendered with the light Huế Cung theme selected
Huế Cung maps the plugin contract into Yaak's light surfaces, controls, and status colors.
Yaak theme settings rendered with the dark Huế Hương theme selected
Huế Hương carries its plum mood through Yaak's native controls and component preview.
Yaak theme settings rendered with the dark Huế Mưa theme selected
Huế Mưa keeps API status colors distinct against its deep blue application surface.

Why I built it

API work moves constantly between navigation, request inputs, authentication, response bodies, history, and status feedback. A useful theme has to preserve those boundaries without turning every panel into a different visual system.

The system

The Yaak package contains three generated themes: Mưa, Hương, and Cung. Its adapter maps the shared Hue contract into Yaak’s native surface, text, border, accent, selection, and status slots, then the Yaak CLI bundles the result for registry distribution.

Yaak does not expose syntax-highlighting slots through its theme API. The adapter records that limitation explicitly instead of inventing unsupported mappings, so the contract remains honest about what the host controls.

Decisions that matter

  • One plugin carries all three moods because Yaak supports multiple themes per package.
  • Every exposed color comes from a semantic token rather than a copied hex palette.
  • Unsupported syntax roles are documented, not approximated.
  • The generated plugin is verified both as a registry artifact and inside the desktop app.

What it demonstrates

Portability does not mean forcing every application into the same shape. Hue for Yaak preserves the shared visual language while respecting the smaller, host-defined theme API that an API client actually provides.

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