Global config for theme is not getting picked up

[pettiross]

To repro:

• Add theme: "dark", to observablehq.config.ts
• Change the title too to verify the config change is picked up

Expected:
Theme changes (and project title too) for all otherwise unthemed pages in the project to dark.

Actual:
Other changes are picked up, but not the default theme

[Fil]

this looks like a duplicate of #645 — should be solved by #695

[Fil]

ah! did you check that the page you're looking at doesn't have a theme defined in its front-matter?

[mbostock]

Did you call it observable.config.ts? Because it’s observablehq.config.ts (with an hq).

I just tested this, and as expected, neither the theme or the title changes have any effect until you restart the server. Closing as duplicate of #645, but please provide more information if there are additional steps here.

[mbostock]

Also note that the default template docs/index.md includes frontmatter which specifies the theme:

---
theme: alt
---

This takes precedence over the theme specified in the config. We should probably remove that here, though — those pages don’t really need a theme override and it’s another opportunity for error.

[pettiross]

Did you call it observable.config.ts? Because it’s observablehq.config.ts (with an hq).

I just tested this, and as expected, neither the theme or the title changes have any effect until you restart the server. Closing as duplicate of #645, but please provide more information if there are additional steps here.

The file name was my typo in the original issue. Corrected. As I noted, I verified that other changes to the config properly went through.

There is not any theme in the front matter for the pages where I'm looking for the theme. I double-checked that by explicitly adding and removing a theme from one of them.

[Fil]

did you restart the dev server? Worst case, could you zip the project and send it to me?

[mbostock]

Closing as cannot reproduce.

[pettiross]

@Fil

did you restart the dev server? Worst case, could you zip the project and send it to me?

I did restart the dev server. I've got a branch going with the edits: pettiross/eia-next

[Fil]

Found the issue by pairing: the style option takes precedence over the theme option.

[mbostock]

Thanks for diagnosing and persisting!