I Thought Dark Mode Was a 30-Minute Task. It Turned Into a Full Refactor

I thought adding dark mode would take 30 minutes. It broke my website. Problem 1: Hardcoded colours I didn’t even use that many colours. How hard could it be? Turns out, very. My colours were hardcoded directly into Tailwind utility classes. A heading had a specific hex value, and a paragraph had another. To change the theme, I would have had to update each of these individually. No, thank you. The fix I introduced CSS variables and defined colours by role, not value. My first attempt had variab