System, method and computer program product to generate a web application using reusable themes

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to:

• receive, in an integrated development environment (IDE) software development tool executing on a first computing system, a selection of a reusable theme;
• apply, by a web application designer of the IDE, the reusable theme to a web application and generate, by the web application designer, a deployable updated web application, wherein to applying the reusable theme comprises t:
• compiling a theme implementation file to obtain a style sheet language file, wherein the style sheet language file comprises a relative location for an image, wherein the image is to be displayed on at least one webpage of the deployable updated web application;
• storing the image in a first directory in a deployable application project structure associated with an integrated development environment (IDE);
• storing the style sheet language file in a second directory, wherein the second directory comprises the first directory;
• receive a request to preview the deployable updated web application, wherein the deployable updated web application comprises a hypertext mark-up language (HTML) file and wherein the HTML file comprises a reference to the style sheet language file;
• in response to the request:
• resolve, by a resolution service of the IDE, the relative location for the image to obtain an absolute location for the image using a location of the style sheet language file in the deployable application project structure;
• obtain the image from the absolute location of the image;
• display the image within the at least one webpage on a web browser.